First Gropper and Sedge

A dry day till lunchtime then afternoon showers. A SE to SW

Pete:

2cy little gull briefly seaward end heysham one

2cy kittiwake inner end heysham two. 

Sea from north wall 0655-0755 early incoming: 

just two Common Scoter and 59 Sandwich Tern out - wind too southerly

Sea 0820-0850 back of harbour: 

Razorbill - 1 out

Razorbill/Guillemot - 2 out

Sandwich Tern - 5 out 

blogging 2cy little gull in view first 10 mins.

South shore

Malcolm 09:00 - 10:00

Linnet 15 flew north over Ocean Edge

Wheatear 4 males

Pale-bellied Brent goose 4 on Red Nab (there were 5 when Kevin checked later)

Pale-bellied Brent geese

Wigeon 1 male. Finding gutweed to eat is easy now, the long filaments just float up to the surface.

Little Egret 1

The only gulls on No.2 outfall were 10 Common and a couple of Lesser Black-backed.

This male Blackcap was feeding near the small anemometer in the Nature Park 

Kevin Eaves checked at high water.

5 Brent Geese still on Red Nab at high tide, plus: 
Kittiwake .. 1ad, 1 2nd cy on no.2 outfall. 
Blackcap .. unusually, 2 m and 1 f feeding on the bush by the wood chip pile 

Middleton Nature Reserve - Janet

Female Mute Swan and a Little Grebe

Immature Cormorant, and you just can't keep the grebe out of the frame!

Tufted Duck pair

Moorhen 

Male Goosander on "no swimming" pond

Mallard with chicks on the "no swimming" pond

Grasshopper Warbler - first record this year

Blackcap

Chiffchaff 

Willow Warbler 

A Sedge Warbler was also very vocal, but remained out of sight. Another first for this year

Heysham skear - Malcolm 13:30 - 14:30

It was getting darker over lunch, I knew what was going to happen! Sure enough the rain started as I stepped out of my door and didn't stop until I got home again. I wanted to check any Knot for flags, but these tides drain quickly and the window of opportunity was lost to the rain. Still at least I could see that there were some Knot, at least 2000. Hopefully they will still be around tomorrow when it should be brighter.

Eider 35

Red-breasted Merganser 3

Sandwich Tern 2 together