Heysham Bird Observatory

Saturday, 12 May 2018

Cumbrian seabird mirage and Little Tern for the year list

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Low single figure temperatures and bright sunny weather often leads to a heat haze on the sea and that was the case this morning.  Loads of ...
Friday, 11 May 2018

Two decent sightings

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Early morning sea-watching was left to Nick at the Stone Jetty and, not for the first time, the single skua record in a south-easterly was a...
Thursday, 10 May 2018

Interesting seawatch

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It is not often you can roll up on a morning sea-watch ten minutes or so before high tide and see 99% of the birds of interest, especially o...
Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Seemingly useless southerly

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Assuming there was not a 'one off' around like Ian's singing Firecrest at Fleetwood, today was quickly dispensed with in favour ...
Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Pomarine Skua puzzle

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A light morph adult pomarine Skua flew distantly out of the bay heading across towards piel island at 0907hrs.  Why did it not go overland i...
Monday, 7 May 2018

A few more terns

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North Harbour Wall 0615-0915 with additional sightings from Heysham Head in the same time frame Arctic Tern 37 (2/7/8/4/14/2) - before 080...
Sunday, 6 May 2018

Mainly seabirds

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Clear as a bell this am and landbirds were at a premium but the sea was covered pretty well (Pete Crooks, Jean Roberts and Nick Godden at SJ...
Saturday, 5 May 2018

So and so with three species of goose the 'highlight'

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A bit of unbalanced coverage this morning with no coastal coverage and everyone ringing site-based at Middleton and Heysham.  There was cert...
Friday, 4 May 2018

Heaps of bird racing through in the murk

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Anyone puzzled by the earlier request for information on "brand new" British "A" ring A304xxx on a Sedge Warbler this am...
Thursday, 3 May 2018

Rubbish

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Today was useless................but we maybe should have waited for the band of rain to combine with the tide in late afternoon Arctic Te...
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