Heysham Obs
Bits and pieces of coverage today
North harbour wall 1000-1020hrs
Red-throated Diver - one out
Med Gull - 3 adults (2 of these 3rd W)
Linnet - just 2 left
Shag - no more than 5 on the wooden jetty at any one time [with another 3 off the Grosvenor area with one of these in transit from there to the wooden jetty] = minimum 8 individuals seen today.
Ocean Edge/outfalls
No Dunlin this morning but 17 Ringed Plover on the mudflats of OE south end
Little Gull - 2nd W Stage 2 outfall
Twite - one at OE south end, flew towards saltmarsh
Pink-footed Goose
120+30+100 casually recorded flying south during morning. 82 S during afternoon
Moths
The trap held: 7 Red-line Quaker & single Black Rustic, Green-brindled Crescent, Angle Shades, Garden Rose Tortrix and Agonopterix spp..
Elsewhere
Little Stint, 4 Curlew Sandpiper & Barnacle Goose Pilling Marsh. Curlew Sandpiper Cockersands, 4 Spotted Redshank Conder Green. Migrant Short-eared Owl headed south during the Caton Moor vis mig watch. No news at all from Leighton Moss area as yet today.
The observatory was set up in 1980. It involves ringing,'vis mig' counts (including seabirds) and general monitoring in the Heysham Nature reserve/power stations/harbour area. The statutory moth trap is in place and also a daily log for butterflies, dragonflies etc. We share an office, kindly provided by EDF Energy, with the County Wildlife Trust. This is located next to the Nature Reserve car park. Do call in. Please leave sightings in the letterbox, ESPECIALLY 'fly-by' seabirds.