A few hours birding at the
Point of Ayre in the morning produced a few bits with the highlights coming as
the big high tide flooded a small area of saltmarsh / reeds flushing a Short-eared Owl, a Jack Snipe and at least 4
Water Rails out of cover. Other
birds included a single Wheatear, 5 Little Egrets, good numbers of Stonechats
and Skylarks in the dunes, a distinctive all-white, leucistic Herring Gull
roosting within a huge Gull flock on the beach at Gronant Dunes (tried for a
while to turn it into an Iceland Gull) and a slight trickle of Finches heading
west along the coast including Linnets, Goldfinches, Siskins and Greenfinches
along with a couple each of Swallow and Sand Martin.
Drove on a bit further and walked up the Little Orme
where there were no migrants but it was really good to see good numbers of
seabirds back on the cliffs including Kittiwakes, Razorbills, Guillemots,
Fulmars, Cormorants and Shags along with a pair of Peregrines, 4 Ravens and a
pair of Chough.
Skylark
Stonechat
Jack Snipe
Water Rail
Wheatear
Leucistic Herring Gull
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