Another Chiffchaff

Heysham Obs

Thursday 14th
North Harbour Wall
Czech ringed adult Med Gull
18 Goldfinch and 1 Linnet on feeding area.

Friday 15th (thanks to Janet and Malcolm for coverage)
Middleton NR
Chiffchaff - a bright 'green and yellow' bird in the NE corner of the Tim Butler pond this morning
Cetti's Warbler - no sight nor sound in good conditions and extensive search
Snipe - 3

Red Nab
Little Egret - 2

Heysham village
Blackcap - male still present

Wednesday 13th

Heysham Obs
Male Blackcap on a fat ball in a Heysham garden

Chiffchaff in the tank farm next to the pond mid morning

Greenfinch - quite a few un-ringed birds about - 11/12 caught were un-ringed and were plenty of others around as the weather worsened and the net was taken down

No coastal coverage today

A few kittiwakes

Heysham obs
A short seawatch saw 5 plus 1 kittiwakes heading into the bay and that was about it for the day

Good coverage nothing showstopping

Heysham Obs
Ringing by office
22 new birds, including 14 Greenfinch, 2 Bullfinch, 2 Robin, one Coal Tit

Middleton NR
8 mute (3 pairs and 2 juv), 2 coot, 6 moorhen, 8 mallard, 7 tufted, 37 teal, 5 water rail, 28 linnet, 6 bullfinch, 1 raven (high to north) and a gang of 7 continental Blackbird

Ocean Edge saltmarsh
8 2CY mute,  2 mallard,  4 common snipe, 1 jack snipe, 70 bar tailed godwit (over to SE), 3 reed bunting, 7 linnet, 7 greenfinch

Red Nab
19 Wigeon

Mammal
1 grey squirrel OE

Thanks to Malcolm and John

Somewhere over the rainbow

The view from the harbour
I think any rare birds were somewhere over this rainbow as only common ones appeared in view during a 1.5hr seawatch today:
Kittiwake - 4+6+14 seen heading into the Bay
Great-crested Grebe - 2 in the harbour and one flying past
Knot - 1340 flew past heading out of the Bay
Oystercatcher - 200 flew past heading out of the Bay
Other than that it was just the usual gulls and 3 Starlings.

Ocean Edge
Red-breasted Merganser - 1 male
Oystercatcher - 600 on the grass, most sheltering behind the low bund
JR

Med gull

The Czech ringed med gull was keeping the anglers company along the north wall and a brown house moth was in the moth trap

Nothing much happening

Heysham Obs

THURSDAY
Ad Kittiwake behind IOM ferry

FRIDAY
Pink-footed Goose - 33 S lunchtime
Great-crested Grebe - 5 in harbour/just offshore
No sign Guillemot
Nothing behind the ferry

Cetti's materialises!

Heysham obs
These non singing Cetti's are elusive . One was located after a 15 minute vigil seeing what was around from the end of the wetland boardwalk Heysham nr.

Also seen:
Treecreeper - 1
Goldcrest - 2
Water rail - 1
Moorhen -3
No chiffchaff located

Moth
Dark chestnut kicked off the trap for the year

Nuthatch mega (Tuesday posting)

Heysham Obs
These are really rare west of the Lune/south of Morecambe and indeed also rare in the whole of Morecambe itself.

Ocean Edge/Middleton
Nuthatch - was on western boundary of MNR where it adjoins the caravan site. I suspect there are lots of feeders in this area, so it may stick around? Indeed it may have been around a while as I seldom walk here - it was the loud calling that attracted me, easily audible from top road of caravan park (per Malcolm).
Cetti's Warbler - one between fence pond and fence in brambles but very elusive
Mute Swan - 2 pair + 2 juv
Coot - 1 (no swimming pond)
plus :3 moorhen 8 mallard 8 tufted 46 teal 5 water rail 5 meadow pipit 4 bullfinch
Linnet - just 7 Ocean Edge

Heysham NR
Skylark - 1 ESE 1000ish

YESTERDAY:  Little Grebe on pond in retirement home area

Czech Med and Finches

North Harbour Wall

Brief visits over the last three days, to top up seed at the feeding station produced the Czech ringed Med Gull on each occasion. Also up to 45 Finches, just Goldfinch and Linnet, today comprising 23 Linnet and 11 Goldfinch

The only record to add to this lot is an adult kittiwake behind a delayed afternoon ferry on 1st January