On Tuesday this week I had a visit to RSPB Saltholme..
Little Egret
Teal
Shelduck
Coot
Female Reed Bunting
Male Reed Bunting
Female Chaffinch
Robin
Red Breasted Merganser
Wigeon
Greylag Geese
Reed Bunting
Flock of Golden Plover
Common Snipe
Lapwing
Curlew
A group of Shoveler
Cattle Egret
On the road leaving Saltholme towards North Gare, Seaton Carew.
Kestrel
Redshank
Seal
Drake Wigeon
Female kestrel
Shoveler
Sunset.
Regards,
Ian.
2013 photos & vids here
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(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
Unknown said:I was at Saltholme on Tuesday of this week Bob! I don’t know what day you where you, If you where the same day as me on Tuesday, You never know we might have passed one another!
It does say I was there on Tuesday so we may well have passed each other unless we both went round in the same anti-clockwise direction
WendyBartter said:Thanks for the lovely pics Bob, especially the Kestrels!
Specially for you
I did go up to the top of Haverton Hill. I also went along the path of the Long Eared Owls Viewpoint on Tuesday and last Saturday as well. What I’ve never said I fell into the mud along that path last Saturday but was ok. Laughing afterwards. Part of my trousers were covered in mud. On Tuesday of this week I was more careful walking along the same footpath. But certainly walking along the Long Eared Owls footpath you definitely need wellingtons aa part of the footpath is deep mud, also part of that footpath has a lot of lying water due to the recent rain which was half way up my Wellingtons. So I was laughing afterwards. The staff were concerned but I was ok! No signs of the Long Eared Owls at the viewpoint this winter. The wilderness walk itself(another footpath) has been closed for quite a long period due to flooding. 90% of the time along that path you definitely need wellingtons. I done that footpath a lot.