My first nose was over Warren Fields. Hundreds of birds were on show including at least 2,000 Lapwing and a monkey or so grazing Wigeon.
No sign of the recently spotted immature Spoonbill; linking together a host of reports from a few websites, the bird seems to be a prostituting itself all over the estuary, never staying faithful to the same site!
Next stop was the dunes at Talacre for a seawatch. It was immediately obvious that the recent spell of north-westerlies had succeeded in cornering quiet a few birds in Liverpool bay.
Common Scoters were the most numerous, but despite well excess of a thousand birds flying fairly close to the shore, for the umpteenth time I didn’t see the telltale white wing-bar of a Velvet Scoter…do they ever come east of Rhyl?
In addition to the Scoters, the normal potpourri of over-wintering commoner sea duck, grebes, auks and divers moved out at various points over the two hours with perhaps a pair of Goldeneye the pick – not common birds at the Point of Ayr.
Until later.
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