As I was talking to a neighbour yesterday afternoon we noticed a large bird flying over the off shore spit...or was it? At first I thought it was a cormorant but as we watched it, it changed direction and flew back and forth up and down the spit....no bins...no camera. It turned out to be a drone being flown by a team from the coastal survey operation.Their vehicle was parked in the car park.
Earlier in the day the the work started on a 'patch up job' along the beach. This will probably be satisfactory until the next Spring tide!
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| Shingle is being scraped up from the beach forming part of the nature reserve and dumped by the first rock groyne.
Residents don't have a lot of confidence in the operation ...it is certainly not a long term solution.
....but this is a blog about birds, so enough!
Not ideal birding weather and having circumnavigated the Lagoon nothing of major interest... 3 female Goldeneye, 12 Little Grebe,and Tufted Ducks. On the sea a few Gt Crested Grebes, the usual Med Gulls plus, on the high tide roost, c 300Knot/Grey Plover.
Maybe the shift in the wind direction and a drop in temperature will result in more activity.
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