Scotland Holiday Day 12: Aberlady Bay 9th June 2016
With a bit of time to spare on our second day in the Musselburgh area, we decided to drive down the coast to Aberlady. We parked in the small car park near the boardwalk and walked the mile and a half each way out to the sea. As you walk through marshy land first, then through an alley of bushes and then emerge into a tidal flood plain and then sand dunes, you encounter a surprising range of birds. Not only were there Tufted Ducks and Lapwings and Iystecatchers in the part closest to the road but, as you got furhter into the tidal part, birds sang from the ground, the air and the trees.
These ranged through Linnet, Willow Warbler, Meadow Pipit, Skylark, Reed Bunting, Stonechat and even a single Sedge Warbler, which surprised me. It was a fantastic walk and very interesting. I would very much like to see it at different stages of the tide because it much change a lot.
Bird Sightings : Aberlady Bay
| Species | Count |
|---|---|
| Mute Swan | 8 |
| Common Shelduck | 12 |
| Mallard | 4 |
| Tufted Duck | 6 |
| Eurasian Oystercatcher | 8 |
| Northern Lapwing | 6 |
| Eurasian Curlew | 3 |
| Black-headed Gull | 24 |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | 8 |
| Common Wood Pigeon | 6 |
| Eurasian Magpie | 2 |
| Eurasian Jackdaw | 10 |
| Rook | 20 |
| Carrion Crow | 6 |
| Sky Lark | 12 |
| Sand Martin | 2 |
| Barn Swallow | 2 |
| Common House Martin | 4 |
| Willow Warbler | 4 |
| Sedge Warbler | 1 |
| European Stonechat | 6 |
| Common Starling | 20 |
| Meadow Pipit | 10 |
| Reed Bunting | 3 |
| Common Chaffinch | 3 |
| Common Linnet | 4 |
| House Sparrow | 6 |