10 Dec 22

Portland Castle Beach and Portland Marina

It was another beautiful day, but very cold as it has been for a few days now.

Main highlights were a Black Redstart in the grounds of the HeliOps and a Raven on Portland Castle Beach. The latter flying off before I could get a photograph of it.

Birds Recorded:
Cormorants
Shags
10 Red-breasted Merganser
2 Oystercatcher
Black-headed Gull
Mediterranean Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Pied Wagtail
1 Black Redstart
Magpie
Carrion Crow
1 Raven

Predominantly Cormorants, but there are a few Shags in amongst them and an adult Great Black-backed Gull on the right.

A drake Red-breasted Merganser

And a female Red-breasted Merganser

Mediterranean Gulls

And a close up.......

.............of two of them.

A female/immature Black Redstart

Ted:

Ted stretching his legs