The Safari has solved the riddle of the mysterious
whereabouts of the loudly singing Mistle Thrush...by tricky triangulation we
sussed he was somewhere on the tower. Looking up he wasn’t on the Peregrines’
favoured ledge nor the wider one above it. Eventually we found him – right at
the top of the tallest comms mast...no better place to be if you’re trying to
advertise your presence!
As we were triangulating we watched the massed ranks of
Starlings flying over on their way to their daytime feeding sites. In the
distance we could see them bunching up in tight anti-predator formations,
something we’ve not noticed in the morning before, probably because it has been
dark when we’ve been out on the patch.
Patch 2 was dingy and grey but at least the visibility out
to sea was reasonable and we again estimated 10,000 Common Scoters and nothing
else.
The beach was more productive; we didn’t count the
Oystercatchers but there were 127 Sanderlings ...and no Ringed Plovers.
At lunchtime the light was weird but the visibility was superb, hardly a ripple from here to Ireland, not that we can see that far. The scoters looked ethereal floating in a void of grey, but just how many are there??? Squnzillions at a guess! Looked for all the world like Wildebeest on the plains of the Serengeti!
Six Great Crested Grebes were equaled by six Red Throated Divers, the most we've seen for a long time.
A Grey Seal stuck his nose out of the water a few hundred yards to the south...but no Harbour Porpoises :-(
Where to next? More of the same but with some cetaceans please.
In the meantime let us know what's looking ethereal in your outback
Sorry no pics again today, maybe there'll be something to get the camera out of the bag for tomorrow.
1 comment:
Those Mizzies are hard to pin down at times aint they Davo :-)
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