Black Hole Marsh

This morning Mir and I popped down to Black Hole Marsh at Seaton for an hour or so. The weather when we left home was cold and overcast but on arriving at the coast the sun was out and it was quite warm out of the wind.
We walked out to the marsh hide and got comfortable and I was pleased to see this Grey Plover sat on a island in front of us, resplendent in its summer plumage.

Grey Plover

Looking out it was evident the most numerous birds were Shelduck and at least one pair had bred.

Awwwww !

Another evidence of breeding were these Canada Geese.

They were very protective and saw off this Mute Swan when it got too close.
The Seaton Tramway runs right by the reserve along the estuary and as expected on a bank holiday weekend was in full swing.

After about an hour we headed into Seaton and Tesco's as it has a good selection of bottled ales. I came away with three Wooden Hand beers,Four Hop Backs a Keltec and a Thwaight's Wainwright, which makes a nice blog writing accompaniment.