It was back to Ferrybridge this morning, to see if I could pick up some new bird species, and I wasn't disappointed as I ticked off Ringed Plover, Turnstone, Skylark and Meadow Pipit.
Other birds of interest were:
Great Northern Divers: 1 in the Fleet and 2 in the harbour
Black-necked Grebes: 8 in the harbour
Dunlin: A good 150+ on the sandflats
Mediterranean Gulls: 200+ on the sandflats
Dunnock: 1 by the visitors centre which I wasn't expecting to see at this location
Carrion Crow: 1 eating a Limpet at Ferrybridge
Greenfinch: 1 by the visitors centre.
Birds Recorded:
3 Great Northern Diver
Birds Recorded:
3 Great Northern Diver
8 Black-necked Grebe
Cormorant
41+ Dark-bellied Brent Goose
1 Buzzard
1 Kestrel
Oystercatcher
3 Ringed Plover
150+ Dunlin
10+ Turnstone
Black-headed Gull
200+ Mediterranean Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Wood Pigeon
14 Skylark
2 Meadow Pipit
2 Pied Wagtail
1 Dunnock
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Starling
House Sparrow
1 Greenfinch
A Great Northern Diver in..............
......................The Fleet at Ferrybridge
And here it has just caught a Shore Crab
Here it is again in slow-motion
A Common Buzzard on one of the lampposts along Portland Beach Road.
An Oystercatcher and three Mediterranean Gulls
Ringed Plovers
Just a few of the 150+ Dunlin here at Ferrybridge. On the water are several Mediterranean Gulls.
Turnstone
Three of the 14 Skylarks in the rough grass by the car park
And another one.
Pied Wagtails
A Carrion Crow at Ferrybridge devouring a Limpet
And my final photo is of a Greenfinch.