Wednesday 7 July 2021

Autumn wader passage and returning Mediterranean Gulls on the Solway

 Black-tailed Godwits were back on the Solway today with 11 at Port Carlisle and a single on Wedholme Flow ... always distant, they were in the company of some fine looking breeding plumage Bar-tailed Godwits ...



... as a Little Egret put in an appearance with more visual effect ...



While at Wedholme Flow the breeding season was very much in evidence ... Meadow Pipits still feeding young ...


... and Redshanks alarming overhead ...



... a few juvenile Skylarks looked very attractive as they fed among the tufts of vegetation ...


... and as the tide fell, among the many thousands of Black-headed Gulls, a single adult Mediterranean Gull appeared ...





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