Thwarted by the weather!

Unfortunately the rain forecast to start at 10:00 began at 08:30, and continued all day. A freshening west wind ended up strong by evening.

Heysham skear (Malcolm) 08:15 - 09:30

Pale-Bellied Brent goose 4 - they were feeding on sea lettuce and gutweed that the overnight tide had deposited on the shore above the SE skear corner

That's the children's play area in the background. You can see that some of
the rocks in front of it are green with the gutweed growing on them.

Eider 2 males

Little Egret 6

Oystercatcher 500

Curlew 10

Redshank 30

Turnstone 20

Knot 1400

The larger of two Knot flocks

Unfortunately by that time the rain had already started so checking for colour coded birds with limited optics was very difficult. I did manage to spot one.

One of a Dutch ringing scheme, we have seen it before. Ringed at the Wadden Sea
Holland in 2019. It was last seen at Heysham in January this year. Hopefully,
it has been seen somewhere else since then.

And that was it! A quick check of Imperial Rd on the way home saw nothing of note. 

Another stop off at the main pond on Middleton Nature Reserve also saw nothing new.

Tufted Duck 6

Gadwall 6

Mallard not counted

Gadwall and Tufted Duck

Tufted Duck and a bathing gull

The Mallard thought I was going to feed them and headed towards me.

Coot and a Cormorant