Redshanks

Numbers of Redshank are up along the coast with flocks of bird arriving from northern climates.
These birds were along the seaweed washed up on the Clahane shoreline this bright yet cold morning.

Redshank

As usual at this time of year our shorelines host to many Redshanks ,this bird was photo`d at Liscannor Harbour wall

Clahane next morning

Today at Clahane everything was a lot calmer, the strong swell of last evening had settled and the high tide line was less dramatic.Plenty of Redshank were back on the shore, a Great northern Diver was catching plenty of small fish, The Gulls hade moved out to deeper water

Two Willow Warblers were a suprise and my first this spring, also 5 Wheatear were present.

Clahane evening -Hightide and flies

The Flies

Redshank covered in flies

 Billions of flies were pushed up onto the sea walls at Clahane ,producing food for a variety of birds on land and in the sea, there must have been an abundance of feeding  fish as well to attract a Bottlenose Dolphin.

Bottlenose Dolphin

A large flock of Herring Gull and Kittiwake had come into the cove for the feeding and  50 Pied Wagtail were along side the road.

Kittiwake

50 Pied Wagtails

 The wading bird and the birds that roost on the shoreline here had lost there place due to the hightide, pushing them up close the road , they searched for roosting areas late into the evening,

Oystercatchers

View to Hags head from Clahane

Theres nothing like an evening at your local patch.

Redshank

Redshanks can be seen all over our coastal shorelines, There seems to a Redshank every few metres in winter

The Clahane Shore

Redshank are getting frisky and displaying, A pair of Great northern Divers hunt crabs in the tidal shallows,  A lone male Shelduck seems lost and out of place, 1st time ive seen Shelduck here at Clahane.

Shanks on the Clahane high tides

Using the sea wall as cover ,the tide is pushing full , sun is going down.
Birds like these Greenshanks & Redshanks roost close to the road

Redshanks at Clahane

Redshank numbers at Clahane are on the increase now and with plenty of seaweed to rott , more will come as the colder weather approaches

Redshank (red&white ringed)

A redshank at clahane,wearing red&green ring on leg