Sunday 3 October 2010

Golf weather

Heysham Obs
After the clearance of the incessant morning rain:
Reserve circuit mid-pm
Chiffchaff - 2
Long-tailed Tit - 33 in two flocks with no groupies other than Blue Tits
Song Thrush - one probable migrant
Blackbird - two possible migrant
Water Rail - at least two noisy birds in the marsh

Middleton similarly
Water Rail - at least one
Meadow Pipit - two south
Stonechat - female

Moths
Spruce Carpet - a different one from yesterday - not a common species here (yet?)

Butterflies
3 Speckled Wood & Red Admiral reserve