Sunday, 1 March 2009

New Brighton

To-day we went to New Brighton (14th feb), which is a pretty little seaside town. It was a mixture of both sunshine and cloud, but quite warm when the sun poked through the clouds...We saw 5 Purple Sandpipers, and roughly about 70 Sanderlings. Further along we saw some Turnstones and quite alot of Oystercatchers. I can't wait to see these birds in glorious sunshine and their new plummage.

Back to Parkgate in the afternoon to see 4 Short-eared owls, 5 Little Egrets, a Peregrine Falcon which was very close to us, the wind was beginning to really whip up at this point with an easterly chill but we still managed to catch a glimpse of a Stonechat and 3 Hen-Harriers before returning to the car for a somewhat luke-warm coffee!

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