Progress on Birds and Wildlife in Cumbria 2025 is rapid at present ... authors of the species accounts tell me that this is because the weather has been bad for birding ...
Not to be deterred by such things we ventured out yesterday to look for whatever migh be around ... the first port of call was Houghton where there have been congregations of geese, mainly Pinkfeet .. there were no geese ...
So on to Grune Point ... everything just looked to be shades of grey ... a scan of Skinburness Marsh turned up a first-winter female Merlin ... distantly, of course ...
... more visually appealing was a group of seven Red-breasted Mergansers displaying in the channel ...
Ringed Plovers were displaying and other waders included 26 Black-tailed Godwits, Bar-tailed Godwits, Knot and Dunlin ...
... way out in Moricambe Bay were around 200 Pintail, a very good count for the Solway ...
Back at Houghton and there were geese ! Around 4,000 Pinkfeet and 62 Russian White-fronted Geese ... some family parties included juveniles with their limited or lacking belly barring and dull pinkish bills without a white blaze ...
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