A break in the weather and an opportunity for Dawn and me to walk down to Church Ope Cove for a beach litter pick. Its amazing how quickly you can fill 2 carrier bags with washed up plastic bottles, golf balls, fishing line and dozens of rubber straps stripped off the Lobster Pots.
Our walk took us through Penns Wood and it was good to see that there was at least 1 Firecrest still present here. In fact most of the birds I saw were in singles, with a single Goldcrest also in the wood, a lone Rock Pipit on the beach and a single Great Black-backed Gull keeping an eye on a Shag which was fishing just off the beach.
Birds in double figures were a party of Long-tailed Tits in Penns Wood.
Here are a few images from today:
A Great Black-backed Gull just off the beach
Just the one Rock Pipit at the cove today.
And still more empty Whelk egg cases being washed up.
Another "Sea Fern"
So much rubbish on the beach, mainly plastic bottles and this Golf Ball.
And a couple of bags of rubbish from the beach.
Birds Recorded: 1 Gannet, 1 Shag, Herring Gull, 1 Great Black-backed Gull, Wood Pigeon, 1 Rock Pipit, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Firecrest, 10+ Long-tailed Tit, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Wren, Magpie, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch and Goldfinch
Ships Today
This is the German Tanker "Paulin B" on its way from Hamburg (Germany) to Cork. More on this vessel Here.