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Tuesday 24 April 2012

Skern and Instow

07:00-08:00 Skern.
Very poor showing at high tide in the cold NW wind.
Just 4 Great Black-backed Gulls; 1 Lesser Black-backed Gull; 6 Shelduck; 71 Herring Gulls;
2 Whimbrel; 1 Pied Wagtail and just 5 waders( believed Ringed Plover) in flight off-shore.

08:25 Instow Cricket Ground.
16 juvenile Common Gulls on the green and 8 Whimbrel on foreshore. All put up by dogs.