A dry day becoming increasingly warm and sunny during the afternoon. A light west wind
South shore
Janet had a walk along the sea wall while the tide was out:
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| Plenty of Black-Headed gulls feeding on the outfalls |
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| This one has a tiny Sandeel |
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| The Mediterranean gulls were feeding on the beach by the wooden jetty |
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| This is the Belgian ringed bird seen earlier this summer |
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| Oystercatcher - I just missed the shot where it had a worm in its beak!! |
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| Curlew |
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| Gatekeeper in the Nature Park |
I checked Red Nab towards high water - Malcolm
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| Lots of gulls on Red Nab again, and today they weren't disturbed |
Mediterranean gulls not counted, but a similar number to yesterday
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| Mediterranean and Black-Headed gulls plus Curlew |
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| The one having a wing stretch is a Common Gull |
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| This 2cy Mediterranean gull is part of a Hungarian ringing scheme. It is the same bird as the one with most of its code obscured 22/06. I still can't be certain about the third character, hopefully the scheme will be able to advise. |
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| Grey Squirrel, Blue Tits and Chaffinch, eating seeds left by visitors to the Nature Park |
Heysham skear - Malcolm 10:45 - 12:15
c300 large gulls, mainly Herring feeding on the mussels
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| Many of the Herring gulls were feeding towards the end of the middle skear |
Black-Headed gulls c40. This group were feeding in the SE skear corner, finding plenty to eat on the surface. Likely insects that had landed on the sea and concentrated in the skear corner by the onshore wind
Little Egret 5
Great Crested grebe 5 together
Eider 1 female
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| Eider and Great Crested grebe |
