Godwits in a panic - Lancashire - November 2023.

Black-tailed Godwits - Limosa limosa islandica - Marshside RSPB Reserve, Southport, Lancashire, November 19th. 2023.
Being pursued by an invisible to us raptor, probably a Peregrine Falcon.
Up to 7000 of these Godwits, an increasing number, winter on the Reserve.
Soon, April, most will have departed for their breeding grounds in Iceland.
(The latest available count numbers for the Ribble Estuary, which includes Marshside, gives 8285 for February 2024. A new record.)

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