Undertook another survey there late last week, lovely morning, but absolutely poured it down in the afternoon and was stuck on the Point awaiting tide to retreat to drive over the ford. Still, after my surveying I relocated a yellow-browed warbler in a locals garden that had been found by Pete Marsh in the morning when he was checking moth traps, so that made it a productive afternoon once surveys and paperwork were completed?!
Also present on and around the point in the afternoon strolling were:
Whooper Swan 5 (flying S) PF Goose 80+ (flying S) Jack Snipe 3 Green Sandpiper 1 (on freshwater pool) Merlin 1 (seen 3 times - female/first winter male) Yellow-browed Warbler 1 (heard and seen in local garden)
Too busy working to make serious notes of vis mig overhead, but did write down and observe some:
Meadow Pipit 100+ Pied Wagtail 40+ Skylark 25+ Linnet 35+ Siskin 6+ Swallow 1 (plus 3 later on at Conder Green)
Local birds on and around the Lune estuary included the following, mostly referring to peaks over HT (Spring, so pretty quick in and very high 10.2m) Please note that if you visit this location the public parking area will be covered by the tide over Spring tides, so it is advisable to not visit during these periods or get off the Point prior to the HT. Access to private roads is not permitted, unless prior arrangements have been made, which is not possible for day trippers. However, alternate routes to the Point from the North are possible by foot that involve parking 2km to the north in a public car park and so do not require driving across the ford (see OS maps for details):
Started some surveys from near the Point last month (September 30th). Having only visited once before this I am glad to be spending some more time here between now and Spring 2015. Late September saw heavy vis mig overhead with the following birds noted (obviously not there for pleasure, so can only note things between working, so imagine lots missed):
All birds flying in a south SE direction, as where I was sat was the shortest crossing over the Lune, so suspect they would be re-aligning to a S flight path on the other side. PF were flying along the Lune in S direction though. Birds of note (or in notable numbers) present around the tidal sequence on the Lune and surrounding sands/mud flats were:
Shelduck 70+ Golden Plover 200+ Oystercatcher 300+ (1,000s outside my survey area into Morecambe Bay) Lapwing 150+ Black-tailed Godwit 12 Bar-tailed Godwit (100s outside of my survey area) Dunlin 3 (1,000s more outside of my survey area) Ringed Plover 2 Redshank 220+ Turnstone 30+ Little Egret 5+ Grey Heron 10+
-- Edited by Ian McKerchar on Wednesday 15th of October 2014 12:49:46 PM
