Up and out to Musselburgh for a morning birding prior to my meetings. The tide was in, just beginning to turn. On the sea there were god numbers of Goldeneye and Eider, six Long-tailed ducks were found, also Red-breasted Merganer were some distance out, except two females which feeding next to the shore and one Velevet Scoter was out on the sea. Mallard and Wigeon were around the Esk estuary area. Several Cormorant and Shag were fishing off shore.
A nice selection of waders were on the shore and muscle beds, Turnstone, Dunlin, Redshank, Curlew, Bar-tailed Godwit, Curlew and Oystercatchers. Also, on the mussel beds there were a lot of Carrion Crow, two Hooded Crow and a Rook.
Linnet and Meadow Pipit were feeding in the grassy margins.
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