April 15, 2007
Friday 13th April
LYMINGTON
With the promise of a fine evening, after work we drove to Lymington. From the Bath Road Car Park we walked the sea wall as far as Eight Acre Pond, returning along the lanes. Unfortunately the weather didn’t live up to its promise, and it was misty and quite gloomy.
There are still some winter visitors around, Brent Geese, Red-breasted Mergansers, Teal and Pintails; other waders included Black-tailed Godwit most of them in their red plumage, Oystercatcher, Redshank, Turnstone, some coming in to summer plumage, Greenshank, and Ringed Plover. We couldn’t decide if two of the Godwits were having a dust up or an amorous interlude.
Two summer plumaged Mediterranean Gulls flew over, and there was a Little Tern on a shingle island, and returning along the lanes Chiffchaffs and Willow Warblers were singing.
Black-tailed Godwits