Monday, April 29, 2019
An odd sort of day started with wagtails, foraging with meadow pipits along the wrack on the edge of the beach below the dunes. What seemed an unusually bright bird to me at the time is more than likely a pied wagtail - I think the mantle is too dark grey for a white.
There were several wheatears around.
I'd been hoping to see whimbrel, and as I crossed back to the beach two went flying past while a third turned suddenly and landed close to me.
A few days ago I ate my lunch once again in the company of a great northern diver, moulting now into summer plumage. On that occasion it caught mostly crabs.
Today (I like to think it's the same diver, but it probably isn't) it caught a fish.
I think it's a sea scorpion, and apparently it's more likely to be the long-spined sea scorpion as this species is smaller than the short-spined and more likely to be found close to rocky shores.
// posted by Christine @ 11:46 AM 
