With a brisk westerly wind today it came as a bit of a surprise when from Chowder Ness at Barton On Humber, Wayne spotted 3 Gannets on the east side of the Humber Bridge so we headed up to the Bridge and eventually had a total of 54 juvenile Gannets. They were rather disorientated and would reach as far as the bridge and then turn round and head back up the Humber, we can only guess why they were flying into the wind on a falling tide but it was really good to have such close views.
Earlier in the morning we had 700 Pink Footed Geese, 694 Shelduck,358 Avocet and 62 Bar-Tailed Godwits at Read’s Island and but very few small waders. Its a similar story at Alkborough at the moment with no small waders coming through but 700+ Avocets there and 11 Ruddy Shelduck.
The images below are of the Ferruginous Duck which has returned for the second year back to Far Ings.
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