My old house mate from college had made the journey across from Yorkshire to visit family. He had a day free, so we arranged to meet up for a morning’s birding.
We started the day birding near Silloth at Grune Point. Grune is a spit of land that juts into the Solway Firth, it has a history of attracting rare birds, so I always feel a little optimistic when I visit this site. There was the usual array of birds present, including European Oystercatcher, Common Redshank, Dunlin, Common Ringed Plovers and Bryan picked out a nice summer plumaged Ruddy Turnstone. Common Ringed Plovers were always close by. This gave me a nice opportunity to study the nominate form Ringed Plovers, I even tried some digiscoping!
Next we made our way to Campfield Marsh RSPB reserve. Where we enjoyed views of Little Egrets, Avocet and Marsh Harrier amongst the commoner species.
We finished the morning off at Port Carlisle harbour in the company of three Little Egret and a very sleepy Eurasian Whimbrel. I nice end to the mornings birding!
Another good day on the Solway coast and great catching up with Bryan again.
