Sunday 23 May 2010

Dragonfly weather

Heysham Obs
The best sightings today were a young Lapwing on the model boat pond spit about 5-7 days old and a single Wall Brown butterfly in the same area

Early morning seawatching for two hours!
Common Scoter - 8
Gannet - 4
Sandwich Tern - 1

Middleton IE
Large Red Damsel - 30-40
Blue-tailed Damselfly - 10-15
Azure Damselfly - c30
no definite Common Blue Damsel
4-spotted Chaser - 34 with records scattered throughout
Common Blue butterfly - 44, most around the model boat pond
Large White - 4
Small Heath - 4
Orange Tip - 2+
Small/Green-veined White - 17+
Speckled Wood - one

Elsewhere
Black Tern arrived at Leighton Moss about 1530hrs