Well its been a while, weekends being busy with Reeces rugby but I took the day off work and decided to visit a few places across Lancashire to see what we could find. We started up at Heysham north harbour with the hope of seeing some Twite but it took a second visit later in the day to find them. Nothing unusual found with Oystercatcher, Redshank, Curlew, Turnstone, various Gulls though we couldn't pick out the Med Gull that is hanging around up there, Pied Wagtail and Goldfinch rounded the visit off.
ABOVE BLACK HEADED GULL
ABOVE A GULL DROPPING A MUSCLE ON THE ROCKS BELOW
ABOVE 1ST WINTER HERRING GULL
ABOVE PIED WAGTAIL & BELOW ONE OF A LARGE FLOCK OF GOLDFINCH
Next stop was the Eric Morcambe and Allen hides at Leighton Moss with 100+ Redshank, 8+ Little Egret, 2 Greenshank, Goosander and Wigeon the only birds of interest.
ABOVE & BELOW LITTLE EGRET
ABOVE WIGEON BELOW REDSHANK
BELOW ROOK TAKEN BY REECE
From there we headed back to Heysham where we picked up the Twite before passing through the Trough of Bowland in hope of catching site of the Great Grey Shrike that has taken up residence just north of the Moorcroft pub at Waddington. As is usual we missed out on the Shrike but we didn't have that much time to stay to se if it would make an appearance but we did manage a flock of Brambling along with some Chaffinch and a 100+ Fieldfare on route.
ABOVE TWITE WITH A SINGLE GOLDFINCH
ABOVE BRAMBLING AND CHAFFINCH BELOW FIELDFARE
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