Spent a bit of time around Mere and Deer Park today. Ran into Andy Sims on my way round, said to him I had not seen a swallow yet and just after we parted ways one flew past me, heading west across the headland! It must have heard what I had said! Shortly afterwards saw a buzzard getting harrassed by a herring gull over field to east of fort.
Saw 4 Tufted duck as well as a lone Pintail on the Mere. The highlight though being a lone Black Tailed Godwit. Various gulls had come in for a bit of a wash which included 2 Black Headed gull. Had one Swallow (different to the one above) and 6 Sand martins over the water.
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| Had to attempt to try and get an image of a Sand martin! |
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| Black Tailed Godwit |
Got out to sit on Wooltack Point just at the right moment today. I first saw a number of gannet coming past and then suddenly this turned into mass diving of birds. Amazing to watch, though I then forgot to count how many, would have been in excess of 40 birds. Moments later I realised it was all related to a pod of Common Dolphin that had come along the coast and then went into Jack Sound to feed. Lovely to watch how nature works together dolphin from below, gannets above. Also saw a couple of Kittiwake, a shag, 2 oystercatcher and a fulmar (alomg with the usual gulls). The Wheater are back in most of the normal locations around the Deer Park.
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| Some of the gannet after one of the mass dive sessions |
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| Due to wind some birds were passing close to the end of the point |
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Common Dolphin moving towards Wooltack Point |
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| Fulmar |
