Sunday 26th December 2021.
I hope everyone had a great Christmas, for I know I did, despite the horrid weather. I only had one bottle of beer and a late drop of Bailey’s yesterday as I offered to drive and so this morning, no hangover for me! Yay! Still, we had a good lay in this morning and I promised to take our Scruff out for a walk and so, took him over for a walk around Eastney and the harbour entrance.
View overlooking the west side of the harbour.
High tide was to be much later in the afternoon and so, checking the harbour after parking the car, I took a slow walk to view by the Hayling Ferry Terminal. It was overcast and so getting any sharp photos of the birds with my Bridge Camera was going to be ‘iffy’, but with help of Photoshop, some came out reasonably well. The usual House Sparrows and Starlings were present within the car park, but I didn't expect an adult Mute Swan to stand up in one of the large puddles there!
Scruff and I passed the Lifeboat station and took a walk to the spit overlooking the west and northern half of the harbour. A small group of 7 Red-breasted Mergansers were swimming over the west side of the harbour until four of them took flight and landed a little closer. A pair of Guillemots were fishing together near the boats and showed really well at times and were joined by a Razorbill that ended up fishing close to the Ferry Terminal. Auks have been abundant of late within our local harbours and today was no exception as I found three more Razorbills near the Eastney Outfall.
One of the Harbour Seals swam into the harbour, but I only watched the animal briefly as it soon dived and simply disappeared. I do know from experience that Seals can swim underwater for a very long way and hold their breath for up to 30 minutes! I did scan the harbour thoroughly for anything else interesting, but drew a blank. A few wader species were on show including Dunlin, Grey Plover, Redshank and a few Turnstone plus a distant Curlew.
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