Mist out

A misty start everywhere, but soon the mist was restricted to out at sea.  The mist cooling the onshore breeze managed to keep the temperatures lower than yesterday, but it was sticky.

Middleton Nature Reserve southern section - Janet

Common Darter

Comma

Green-Veined White

Speckled Wood

Peacock 

Ringlet

The Gatekeepers seem to have taken over from the Ringlets as the
most abundant butterfly.

Whitethroat - Not so easy to get the shots with all the leaves on the trees.

South shore - Malcolm 13:15 - 15:00

This is yesterday's orange flagged Curlew, I incorrectly identified it at 117,
but it was 111, they only got to 112. Ringed as a breeding adult of 2026.
 The project is on Bransdale Moor, 16,000 acres of moorland within the North
Yorkshire Moors National Park. There were four eggs laid, but only two hatched.

Even at 13:30 it was still misty and the sun couldn't burn through. It was
 pleasantly cool walking along the sea wall. But some of my shots are a bit hazy

Some of the large gulls have fledged young. These are Lesser Black-backed

The Black-Headed gulls seem to have had a successful breeding season.
Six juveniles in this shot

Mediterranean gulls 31. 

It was a lazy sort of day, all the Meds were just resting and preening.
These are mostly Meds, and this is on the feeding beach by the wooden jetty

Three Meds, from top to bottom: 3rd calendar year, 2nd calendar year and adult.
(They could have made the effort to get in sequence!)

We've seen this one before, or at least one in the same condition.
Its right leg is missing below the knee, so it walks on the stump and 
its left knee. It didn't stop it moving another Med from its bit of beach.

I had counted 30 Meds and hadn't seen any rings, although several were sat not stood. Then an adult flew in from the north side and landed on feeding beach revealing a white ring.

3LX9 - ringed as a chick in the Netherlands in 2019. It has been seen at 
Heysham every year since apart from 2021. Unfortunately it hasn't been 
seen since leaving us last August

Looks like the Lighthouse Rock Pipits are feeding young again

Between the lighthouse and waterfall 

Linnet several 

Linnets

Pied Wagtail 1

Goldfinch 1

 

2 Meadow Browns were the only butterflies, that is likely to change tomorrow 

In the Nature Park 

Juvenile Robin

Painted Lady 1

Red Admiral 1

Speckled Wood 2

Meadow Brown 2

Small White 4

Small Skipper 2

Small Skipper

Just out of the recording area

Quail singing Heaton marsh