Thursday 12 October 2023

Autumn in North Cumbria ... Waders, Gulls ... arriving and departing migrants ...

 Barnacle Geese are arriving wave after wave now and seem more obvious than the Pink-footed Geese that filled the skies a few weeks ago ...


Greenshanks, rarely very common on the Solway have numbered up to four in recent weeks ...


... the wake behind this bird resulted from it running along with its head submerged ...


... this adult favoured the rocky shore ...




Knot numbers have increased from just a handful a couple of weeks ago to around 1000 ... with some lovely peachy juveniles ...



... and Bar-tailed Godwits roosting behind ...


... the Knot flocks performing spectacular aerial displays


... a notable 81 Mediterranean Gulls in Workington Harbour included adults, second-winters and first-winters in decreasing order of numbers ...


... and a single adult at Port Carlisle / Bowness Railings was further up the estuary than most venture to ...


Grune Point hosted three Female / 1st winter Wheatears ...


... and nearby a Spotted Redshank typically favoured the deeper water ...


... and moved restlessly on the mud ...




... an adult Little Stint finally showed itself among the large Dunlin flocks ...




... and this juvenile Garganey consorted with Teal on the new Campfield Scrape pools ...



 






























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