Last of the Little Auks

Late afternoon at Killingworth Lake worth a look if your passing close views of Goldeneye & Tufted feeding at the edges
Tufted Duck & Goosanders on Killingworth Lake

Little Auks in the shallows these taken on the 15th but some still there as late as the 24th
Little Auk has just dived and can be traced going through the water

More Little Auks & Grey Phalarope

I first found this Grey Phalarope 12th November still there on the 24th

Digiscoped shots as it keeps it's distance

The fate of many of these Little Auks,shows just how small they are


Phalarope comes slightly nearer

Little Auks

Six Little Auks over the surf the last one has hit the water !!

St Mary's Island just out of shot
Over the rocks & one overhead


Little Auk picked up and released at Blyth ,stunning little bird in the hand ,I have found many dead but this is a first one alive, it gave me a right pecking

And off it goes ,not sharp as it's hard to hold both bird and camera,so I had to let it go ,pick up the camera and get a shot.
This is the same bird it soon picked up And more on the sea they flew off just as I walked away
Purple Sandpiper in the setting sun


Sorry lads thats a dogs squeeky toy!!!,and not a Little Auk