Impressive seabird list

A light early east wind freshened during the day as it mover more to the north.

Seawatch report - Pete

0525-1130 with Mark Prestwood; in unless stated: 

Kittiwake - 147 in 15 flocks- many high flying and some could have been missed

Red throated Diver - perhaps the same three sp seen close inshore on three occasions

Arctic skua 1, 2, 1 then one got off sea and chased terns (2LM, 3 DM)

Sandwich tern at least 50

Arctic Tern - single and flock of 30

Little Tern - one

Black Tern - one 

Gannet - c35

Aythya spp prob Tufted distant flock of three

Common Scoter - just 40

Fulmar - 2 (first record since May 2022)

Little Gull - 1st summer

Bottle-nosed Dolphin - 4-5 chasing ?tuna

Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)

Grasshopper warbler reeling in central marsh 

Lots of Silver Y

A bugs eye view of a Silver Y

Male Small White

Common Buzzard

Grey Heron

First Orchids flowering

Heysham Head (Edward Wilkinson)

Linnet

Goldfinch feeding newly fledged young

Greenfinch 

Wren

Common Whitethroat 

Lesser Whitethroat 

Little Egret

Eider

Not the same fresh faced fox photographed by Janet yesterday

Heysham skear - low water 13:40 (Malcolm)

Just a quick check, it doesn't take long on these neap tides.

Eider 109 - this female surrounded by 13 males, you can just about hear them calling.

Red-breasted Merganser 1

Great Crested Grebe 5

Little Egret 2

Oystercatcher 800

Bar-Tailed Godwit 12

Bar-Tailed Godwit

Knot - there were only 2 on the skear as I walked around. Then as the tide was coming in a flock of 44 arrived, gained hight and headed off to the NW.

Lesser Black-Backed gull with one of the original solitary Knot

Knot gaining height before flying off

Just a nice shot looking north from the skear.
Cormorant and Eider in the foreground with the South Lakes in the background.
Can't imagine why I like being out here!