Monday 12 July 2010

Birds Of A Feather

The weather has been a little bit grim today, so I've been looking through some old images and came across this set from last year...Well only just!
These shots were taken at West Kirby on the Dee Estuary on New Years Eve of last year.
I remember it to be a very cold winters morning, but we had some beautiful sunshine early on.

I love to visit West Kirby in the winter months when the tide is high, because if you're lucky you can witness some amazing scenes as thousands of Waders and Sea Birds arrive en mass and sit patiently on the rocks for the sea to go back out and reveal a feast of crustaceans on the wet sands and mudflaps.

On this December morning there was a flock of around 5000 Knot as well as good numbers of Dunlin, Redshank and Turnstone.
Every now and again something would make the birds restless and that was the cue for some wonderful sights...

5 comments:

  1. They are beautiful to watch, even if its only December.

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  2. Wow your HD has a good collection of bird and it is very impressive to see so many of them like this. These are beautiful shots and quite original!

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  3. Que lindo! Um momento único! As fotos ficaram fantásticas!

    Beijos.
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    How beautiful! A unique moment! The photos were fantastic!

    Kisses.

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  4. Wow what a amazing number of birds :)
    Must have been wonderful to watch them flying !

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  5. Thanks very much everyone.
    Truly a wonderful sight and these Sea Bird flocks can be as good as the Starling ones to watch in my opinion.

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