Heysham two hour Seawatch - Pete:
very different to yesterday in similar conditions!
Osprey (0655)
43 swallow
21 sand Martin
2 redpoll
16 meadow pipit (plus c80 small brown birds heading in over the sea, many likely to have been Meadow Pipits)
Proper seabirds amounted to
13 sandwich tern
1 gannet
just one gang of 6 common scoter
2 red throated Diver
South shore (Malcolm)
A walk along the wall and back 08:20 - 09:30
Meadow Pipits 68 feeding on Ocean Edge grass, plus 9 in/off and over, no passage seen beyond Red Nab.
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| Meadow Pipit |
These are a few of the grounded Meadow Pipits
Linnet 7 - three feeding with the Meadow Pipits plus 4 on the saltmarsh
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| Linnet |
Wheatear 2
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| Saltmarsh Wheatear |
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| Red Nab Wheatear |
Rock Pipit just 2, Red Nab and sea wall. This is the Red Nab bird taking a break from displaying to find something to eat. Note how lush the gutweed is now.
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| The sea wall Rock Pipit was happily using both feet today |
Pale-bellied Brent goose 3. Just two as I walked out, a third was feeding some distance from them on my return
Wigeon 1 male
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| Wigeon and a Redshank on the sloping sea wall |
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| Not so many immature large gulls today, fortunately the Herring Gull on the far left was colour ringed |
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| One of the North West England gull project scheme (see link on sidebar) Ringed as a nestling on Walney Island 11/07/24. Seen near Widnes on the Lancashire/Cheshire border 22/11/24 |
Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)
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| Common Whitethroat - first of the year |
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| Willow Warbler |
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| Chiffchaff |
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| Male Blackcap |
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| Male Orange Tip |
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| Female Orange Tip |
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| Brimstone |
Heysham skear (Malcolm)
Just a quick look this afternoon
Shelduck 1 north
Eider 14
Red-breasted Merganser 4
Little Egret 2
Oystercatcher 1,200
Bar-Tailed Godwit 62
Curlew 14
Redshank 250
Turnstone 150, again in several flocks flying west
Meadow Pipit 7 in off then east.
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