Thursday 19 July 2007

Forgot to check letterbox

Heysham Obs
Wooden jetty/harbour
The two Black Guillemot there at lunchtime (thanks Lou) but no news on outfalls/Red nab gulls

Middleton IE
Two singing male Reed Warbler, two singing male Grasshopper Warbler, a flock of four Tree Sparrow SE , c45 Swift south, at least one Stock Dove

Ringing included two Reed Warbler, two Lesser Whitethroat, 7 Whitethroat, 6 Sedge Warbler, 3 Reed Bunting

Moths
Snout new for the year in the trap (rare here!)

Elsewhere
Single Pectoral Sandpiper on the Eric Morecambe pool again with 2 Spoonbill and 2 Little Egret on the 'flood'. Yellow-legged Gull Glasson. Three White-letter Hairstreak on elms near Stairend Bridge, Upper Hindburndale (& Purple Hairstreak in area)