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| Redshanks, New Brighton |
Plenty of redshanks, dunlins and turnstones at New Brighton but still no purple sandpipers either roosting on the pontoon or on the rocks and breakwaters around Fort Perch Rock. The accumulation to the year list crawled to a halt in mid-November. Still, it's always a nice short walk round, especially when high tide brings the waders in to roost.
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| Redshanks, dunlins and turnstones, New Brighton |
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| Oystercatcher, New Brighton |
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| Herring gull, New Brighton |
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| New Brighton |
I moved on to West Kirby to have a walk round the Marine Lake. It turned out to be very busy with families taking the air while it was dry and fairly mild. The only ducks on the lake were a couple of red-breasted mergansers. Lots of big sky in the twilight.
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| Looking across the Dee Estuary from West Kirby Marine Lake |
There weren't very many gulls on the lake, most were out on the the estuary following the receding tide. One particularly small and dinky herring gull caught my eye. For a moment or two I hoped it might be a ring-billed gull but sadly not. Ah well, another day perhaps.
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| Herring gull, West Kirby Marine Lake |
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