Sefton Coast Trip

We've been over to Lancashire this weekend to the Sefton Coast and seen quite a few cool things. For a start the campsite was covered with rabbits! (much to Laddies delight!) I also saw many Pied Wagtail, Robin, Blue Tit and Goldfinch.

The whole area is covering with reserves... mad. We first found a reserve by accident while wandering through the dunes (where we saw some Long Tailed Tits... Sandlake Nature Trail. I saw Mallard, Coot, Moorhen and Cormorants (one swimming and diving... looks amazingly low in the water when swimming... like a submarine with a perescope) and Heron.

We also went to Formby, National Trust, which gave amazing views of Red Squirrels. I never knew they made sucha funny noise! They are reasonably tame seeing as they sell "squirrel food" on the way in but it's still fantastic to see them in the wild. There were an awful lot of Magpies around for some reason, a few Jays and I also got some great views of a Kestrel hunting over a farmers field.

Finally we went to Marshside... Mallards, Greylag Geese, Canada Geese, Dabchicks and Redshank. There was also a Heron and a Pheasant standing next to each on the sand in front of the car park... very usual site!
But the Marshside highlights were the flocks... Starlings swooping around, 100s of Wigeon (reportedly 2000 yesterday) and around 50 Pink Footed Geese (also 2000 reported yesterday)... which is a new tick!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!