Odds and Sods

It’s been fairly quiet down at the Point of Ayr this week. The exception being a Kingfisher that has taken up residency on the pool next to the path that leads to the old colliery site.

The water looks grim, and resembles a smaller version of the uber-polluted lakes that you used to see in next to chemical plants in some poor ex-Soviet bloc satellite country.

Still, it seems fairly content there, although it is often buried right at the back of a cluster of dead branches – almost as if it is slightly ashamed to be fishing in such a dirty pond.

The odd Wheatear on the seawall past the old hide, plus a few common warblers have been the only signs of passerine migration, although on the wader front I did catch up with a group of circa three hundred Ringed Plover feeding on the mud yesterday when out gathering some Marsh Samphire.

General wader numbers seem to building, and also the first Pintail and Wigeon have returned to the Point – both species before August was out.

Until later.