At least the visibility held

Mainly dry and sunny after early showers. A light NE breeze

Pete:

Heysham back of harbour 0640-0830,0900-1000: slow! 
Arctic skua 1 dark morph in
Arctic Tern 5,2 in
Common Tern 1 out
Sandwich Tern only about 12
Red throated diver 8 sightings
Common Scoter just one
single Whooper Swan in
Goosander male in
Guillemot 2
Whimbrel 3 in
Kittiwake flocks of 9,4 in then climbing heading east
2cy Little Gull around Hey one and harbour mouth

Heysham Head - David Kaye

Whinchat 1 female - first record this year 

South sea wall - Malcolm 09:45 - 11:00

A walk around high water

Linnet 2

Swallow 1 in/off

Whimbrel 4 on Red Nab

Whimbrel 

Rock Pipit 1 on Red Nab and 2 along the sea wall

Stock Dove 2 flew east from the wooden jetty, then north over the Power Stations

Stock Doves

Plenty of large gulls on the wooden jetty, but no Cormorants, not even immatures

But there was a 2nd calendar year Shag feeding between the jetty and roundhead.

The unmistakable leap of a Shag

There was no sign of the 2cy Little Gull as I walked out, but on the return it was feeding quite close in on No.1 outfall.

2cy Little Gull

2cy Common Gull

Male Blackcap in the Nature Park - Janet

Middleton Nature Reserve - Janet

One of two Shelduck flying over the main pond

These Mallard ducklings are on the no swimming, the first brood, there are smaller ones on there too, this lot have lost one!! the seagulls are picking them off, someone saw one lift one yesterday and I saw them try with the ducklings on the main pond!!

Common Whitethroat 

Teneral Blue Damselfly, probably Common

Midge sp, doing its bit to pollinate 

This Common Toad and Great Crested Newts were under a stray sheet, it was carefully replaced.