Scaup and Brent Geese

After reports of 7 Scaup and 14 Brent Geese kept comin in all week at West Kirby Marine Lake kept coming in it seemed the logical place to go on Mothers Day after all where else would a Mum want to be taken?
Lucky for me Lesley does enjoy seeing birds and wildlife in general so it didn't take much to persuade that it was the right place to head for.

Soon as we arrived we could see the Brent Geese just loathing around at the Town end of the lake and nice and close in no need for bins to look or watch these dainty little geese. They even came close into the shore to feed on weed growing on the pontoons and lake side.

The Scaup were also easy to locate being just the other side of the lake again around the pontoons and were extremely approachable allowing me to sneak along the pontoons each time they dived I would head further out along the pontoon. They were so close I could almost touch them.

After here to decided to head for Burton Mere Wetlands for lunch a Snipe was nicely on show just below the reception hide with quite a few Avocet around the pools and the Black Headed Gulls pairing up and staking out their territories.