Monday, 2 March 2009

New Brighton

We headed up to New Brighton to try and catch the Med Gull (18th Feb)but it was as elusive as ever, although we did manage to get some shots of a Black Tailed Godwit, a Turnstone and quite a few Redshank.The tide was still well out so we had some fish and chips in the car to warm us up and descided to call it a day here. Fortunately we were just driving past some grassland when a flock of gulls flew down near the round-a-bout, and there nestling amongst them was the Med Gull ! Thank goodness for a small pack of stale biscuits in the glove compartment, which we threw up for them. After a very noisy free for all we managed to get quite a few good shots of the Med Gull, and all purely by chance.
We then carried on back to Parkgate as the light was beginning to diminish, As soon as we had parked up 3 Short Eared Owls came flying towards our vicinity ,we also saw a Hen-Harrier, a single Ringtail, 2 Little Egrets and 2 Stonechats. A long, but very satisfying day !

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