A visit to Crossens and Marshside in the pouring rain. It seemed to have eased when I arrived at Southport but once I got off the bus at Crossens roundabout the Heavens opened.
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Crossens Inner Marsh in the rain
Mostly Canada geese with a few greylags and a domestic white goose |
Definitely Autumn, and not just the weather. Crossens Inner Marsh was covered in Canada geese and greylags and the first few golden plovers were included in the flock of black-tailed godwits, starlings and lapwings put up by a kestrel. There were a few dozen pink-footed geese in Crossens Outer Marsh and a few hundred more in Suttons Marsh in Marshside. No sign of the red-breasted goose reported yesterday; I hadn't held out much hope for it, at this time of year the pink-footed geese see the Ribble Estuary as a transport café rather than a destination. Still, you live in hope.
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| Pink-footed geese, Marshside |
At least two ruddy shelducks were still on at Marshside and there were five cattle egrets over at Nels Hide. Two of the egrets were juveniles, they must be breeding somewhere local, surely?
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| Ruddy shelduck, Marshside |
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| Cattle egrets, Marshside |
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| Cattle egret doing like it says on the tin, Marshside |
Huge numbers of swallows passed through and there was a nice male wheatear at the Sandgrounders Hide.
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| Wheatear, Marshside |
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| Teal and a shoveler, Marshside |
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