Sunday, 25 July 2010

Just Like the Med...

I've been down to Pat haven a couple of times this week both on glorious summer evenings with hardly any wind.
The main focus has been on gulls with an impressive amount including black headed, common, lesser and great black backed,yellow legged flyover little and my first mediterranean gull at this spot.
The wader numbers on the lagoon have been down due to the small tides, but still there has been a green sandpiper, greenshank,whimbrel and a brightly coloured black tailed godwit with a smattering of common waders.
Just for added interest there has been at least 5 little egrets and they have been active around the lagoon feeding on small fish and shrimp.

Mediterranean gull
Mediterranean gull

Black -headed gull

Common Gull

Lesser black backed gull


Little egret

Little egret


Black-tailed godwit
Black-tailed godwit

Oystercatcher

Whimbrel

Shellduck












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