Hilbre Island - 16 March 2012

Tide times dictate when it is safe to walk out to Hilbre Island, so it was a mid morning start for me. After parking at Hoylake, I walked to West Kirby via Red Rocks and saw very little, but the aerial songs of a few Skylark made for a pleasant walk. One even dropped close by and posed for a photo.

The walk out to Hilbre was quiet apart from a number of bronze award DofE'ers. On arriving at Hilbre there were 12 Oystercatchers on the SW shoreline and the rocks above provided a somewhat airy lunch spot but gave me a good view of the slumbering seal colony out on the Dee Estuary sandbank.

The North end of the island was an incredible sight with 70+ very flighty Knot, 100+ Brent Geese and over 300 Oystercatchers covering a large area of shoreline opposite Hoylake. Well worth the walk out.

Skylark at Red Rocks

Dee Estuary seal colony viewed from Hilbre Island

Brent Geese off the Northern point of Hilbre