An odd day!

 A light west breeze. An overcast morning then a combination of sunshine and mist in the afternoon.

A couple of shots from Janet:

A Herring Gull collecting nest material at Half Moon Bay yesterday 

Another Silver Y on Middleton Nature Reserve today

I escorted a field trip around Heysham Head 10:30 - 12:00 (Malcolm)

Greylag goose 12 flew low to the south, east of the Head. 

Eider 4

Little Egret 2

Swallow 6 north

Rock Pipit at least 2 below the cliffs.

Linnet 3

Goldfinch 9

Chiffchaff 1 singing 

Blackcap 1 singing near the car park

Willow Warbler 1 seen

Common Whitethroat 3 - 2 singing males and a female

Lesser Whitethroat 1 singing

House Sparrow 30 plus in the two fields to the south of the head

Kestrel 1 female hunting

Jackdaw 5

Magpie 2

Carrion Crow 1

Wood Pigeon 6

Robin, Dunlin and Wrens singing.

Heysham skear (Malcolm)

I went out this evening on the ebbing tide. It was almost surreal. I was in bright sunshine the whole time, but a fog bank came in......

........first obscuring the harbour and Power Stations

Then the Head and Heysham village disappeared 

Then all of Morecambe was gone - the fog bank then continued north and reality slowly returned.

Eider 53

Red-breasted Merganser 4

Little Egret 5

A sunlit Little Egret with fog bound Morecambe for a backdrop 

Oystercatcher 1,000

Knot 350

Curlew 2

Curlew and Lesser Black-Backed gull

Whimbrel 7 at least

Whimbrel, with the now returning Heysham in the background 

Turnstone 11 in one flock 

No Godwit, Redshank, Dunlin or Sanderlings seen

These are doing very well this year

There are always some around, but every pool seems to have a population this year. I say population because although they look like a feathery plant they are in fact colonies of tiny animals. They are Hydroids (part of the Hydrozoa class). I believe this species is Whiteweed, but I would be happy to be corrected (Malcolm)