My experience at Caerlaverock yesterday left me a little concerned at the low numbers of geese in the area, but Rockcliffe Marsh today went some way to allaying those fears. Huge numbers of both barnacles and pink-feet were on the marsh, there were at least two more flocks distantly of at least equal size to this. Two leucistic barnacles are with the flocks but no sign of any Todd's Canada geese today.
There were also at least 1000 each of golden plover and dunlin and an adult peregrine.
This is the hidden scrape at Esk Boathouse, the first time that I've managed to get a look at it and it was well worth the effort, with 10 avocets and several ruff. Apparently avocets breed here and last autumn the long-toed stint that I saw at St Aidens ended up here.
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