Sunday 9 December 2018

FIVE- MINUTE TWITCH: CROSBY COASTAL PARK

                                                  
Location: Crosby Coastal Park, Waterloo, Merseyside
Date: December 1, 2018
Time: 9.26am
Weather: Overcast with intermittent drizzle


Target species: Ducks, grebes, wild swans - the more exotic, the better.

Star species seen: Black-tailed godwit - two feeding on amenity grassland area in company of gulls.

Other species seen: Cormorant,
mallard, tufted duck, coot, herring gull, lesser-black-backed gull, black-headed gull, oystercatcher.
 
These tufted duck and coot were on the adjacent pond


Two mallard - the only birds on the main water
A cormorant surveys the scene

 
Amid the murk, this black-tailed godwit was feeding alongside the gulls
 

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