Aspects of Bridlington Harbour & Bay (Birds) - 1st March 2023

 

Looking for chips!

March 1st and the first day of meteorological spring! It certainly was a challenging day weather wise, with waves of rain showers interspersed with bright periods and quite cool. Another challenge was finding birds! It was heading towards high tide, but no waders could be found on the south side rocks, very little in the harbour or within binocular viewing of the bay.

Eventually found a few Turnstones

The wader high tide "roost" on the back of the fish dock held Redshanks, Dunlins and Turnstones

A Cormorant managed lunch in the harbour entrance

Very few people were about. Indeed, at c1300hrs the harbour was almost deserted and the food outlets closed

This led to some "interesting" Herring Gull expressions wondering where their food was! You have to love Herring Gulls.

I didn't see any Purple Sandpipers or Sanderlings, the only Dunlins were in with the Redshank roost and no Mallards! I did manage to see a very flighty Rock Pipit at the harbour entrance.

Thank you for looking.