Osprey - Pete Blanchard
Trip Reports
Tuesday 10 March – Sand Point Leaders: Caron Thornton-Trippit and Graham Blacker
March 10, 2026
Nineteen birders gathered at the National Trust car park. We walked up to the ridge and along to the point in a low wind with the sun trying to emerge from behind the clouds. We saw a group of about thirty Shelducks on the shoreline below us together with a lone Curlew. Walking back from
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