Hardly anything

A quick spin round the area in a vain search for white-winged gulls on the incoming tide couldn't even produce a diving duck on the model boat pond - lots of bread and swimming dogs and its got to produce a decent seagull this spring if they carry on the good(?) work with the bread

7 Gadwall model boat pond
2 Little Egret Red Nab

Scandinavian Herring Gull

Scandinavian Herring Gull on fishers roof
A great big 4th winter seagull seemed to fit this form on size, mantle tone, primary mirrors - very long range record shot showing it dwarfing argenteus Herring and indeed appearing bigger than a nearby Great black-backed Gull

Czech ringed adult Med Gull patrolling North Harbour Wall

60+ Snipe below Heliport with Oystercatchers

Middleton Nature Reserve

Usual 7 Gadwall plus single male Pochard and three Tufted on model boat pond.

Bittern search unearths the first woodcock of the year

Woodcock Middleton Nr

Cetti's warbler giving one burst of song middleton

60 snipe heliport

Czech med gull north wall

Injured p f goose by heliport for fourth day

Sunday Chiffchaff

A collybita type was by heysham Nr office with a small tit flock

Fewer snipe

Just checked Ocean Edge & Red Nab at high tide.
48 common snipe
3 Jack snipe
27 Ringed plover
3 Reed bunting (single male plus male & female together)
Only other small birds were 6 house sparrow.
215 Wigeon nearby

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Med gull still in residence

The Czech ringed med gull was in residence but a big surprise was the presence of 97 snipe in the area below the heliport which hopped on to the sea wall with some flying into the now tussocky grass on the heliport (per Mike ).  Flock of 9 Tufted Duck on model boat pond along with the usual drake Pochard and 7 Gadwall

Thanks for these pics Janet from today

Great White Egret

Two Great White Egret flew high from north, over Heysham Nature Reserve, then continued south appearing to be losing height. 11:06

Ocean Edge salt marsh - high tide
The 9m tide was not high enough to cover all the marsh in the calm conditions. Still a creditable:
79 Common Snipe
2 Jack Snipe
3 ringed Plover

Red Nab
c230 Widgeon
75 Shelduck
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8th Feb - Goldeneye

Hysham skeer
Goldeneye  (male)  1
34 closely packed fishing cormorant
27 Eider

 Middleton Nature Reserve.
Cetti's warbler calling by western reedbed
Pochard (male) 1
Tufted duck 4
Gadwall 5
Teal 10

Twice shy

The bittern was seen for a second time in a difficult to access dangerous area of Middleton Nr again today.   Please don't wander off track trying to locate it as you run the risk of disappearing down a hole with no mobile reception.  It flew off in the direction of heysham golf course and implicitly is flighty and wary.  Thanks.

Retro bittern!

One flushed on Middleton on 28th Jan and headed for the reedbef but harassed by gulls and ended up heading for the golf course

Also otter photographed recently at Middleton

Thanks to Dave for info