5th February 2023 – New Passage, Severn Estuary 2023

We had a fleeting visit to New Passage on the Severn Estuary this morning.

The tide was too low to see much and it was too cold to hang around. There was a flock of 30 oystercatchers stretched along the waters edge and a similar number of redshank where the pill met the waters edge. A single curlew filled the air with its beautiful call and drowned the sound of the wigeon on the water.

Redshank

Oystercatchers and curlew

Curlew

Oystercatcher

Further up the estuary we could make out a large flock of dunlin and shelduck.

There wasn’t much on the warth but it wasn’t surprising as a peregrine was quite evident sitting on a log dominating the area (but too far for my lens but with good views in the telescope).

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