Enjoyed a beautiful day out to the coast today with glorious sunshine all day. Bird watching was a little less successful than anticipated but wasn't hard for us to add 6 new birds to our list. We made two stops at Burton Riggs but it was pretty quiet. Canada and Greylag geese, Wigeon, Mallards, Tufted Ducks along with a few Black Headed gulls were about all that was there. Possibly some sort of Plover but we didn't get a good look. And on the 2nd stop we noticed a White-Fronted Goose in with the Greylags.
At Scarborough Meir we were treated to a Red-Crested Pochard, a Mandarin and a few Pintails. There was a great collection of birds here today, all hanging about to get a free meal.
On the coast we saw mainly Herring and Black Headed gulls, but a few Redshanks, Dunlin, Curlew, Oystercatchers, Grey Heron, and a large number of Wigeon on the water.
Shawnna
