No Meds seen today

A dry and largely sunny day. A fresh NE wind.

South shore (Malcolm)

A quick late morning check of Red Nab

No Mediterranean gulls were resting on Red Nab

Meadow Pipit 2 SE

Sand Martin 3 (2 + 1) SE

Shelduck 3

Shelduck taking a drink from the freshwater run off at Red Nab

Osprey 1 fishing between the outfalls, after about 10 minutes it disappeared, presumably caught something and left.

The sea wall was closed for maintenance, so only a distant shot.
No sign of a ring on the right leg

I did have a walk along the sea wall after it reopened for the evening.

Not a single gull turned up to feed on the beach by the wooden jetty, and no Mediterranean gulls seen anywhere 

Wheatear 1 near lighthouse 

Rock Pipit 2 on Red Nab

Shelduck 10

Shelduck on and around one of the freshwater runoffs at Red Nab

In the Nature Park.

Migrant Hawker 1

Common Darter 7

Large White 1

Speckled Wood 4

Peacock 3

Peacock showing all its eyes as it soaked up as much as possible 
of the evening sun.

Treble-bar moth 1

Treble-bar - perfectly camouflaged on the stony path

Heysham Head 

Janet took this shot of a very young Wood Pigeon near the
path. Hopefully it soon moved to a safer area.

Middleton Nature Reserve (Malcolm)

Just a very brief check of the two main ponds

Tufted Duck now 7 on the main pond (5 males)

Managed to get all seven in this shot

Male and female/immature 

This winter plumage Little Grebe was preening on the "no swimming" pond.

Brown Hawker 1

Common Darter several

Speckled Wood 3

Red Admiral 1

Red Admiral, also displaying a full spread of its wings