Useless frontal edge in the morning, better later.....

Heysham Obs

A quietish day so we'll make up for this by another sparrow pic from Emma taken during the processing:

........It didnt 'drop' anything first thing!

North Harbour Wall

Black Tern - two lingering Heysham outfalls morning at least

Arctic Tern - some early morning movement with 106 'in', otherwise up to 50 on the outfalls

Whimbrel 7 in,

Greylag 4 in

Common Scoter 10 in

Swallow - just 73 in 3 hours & no other passerines/hirundines/swift on the move during the early morning.

Common Tern - at least three blogging

Sandwich Tern - at least 18 blogging

The high tide period

There was no known seawatching over the high tide but JBP was manned during this period:

Arctic Skua - 2 dark morph overland via Jack Scout late afternoon

Otherwise just 50 or so Arctic Tern, 5 Black Tern and a single Kittiwake

of note.

Other inshore/off-passage

Black Guillemot - usual routine, perhaps spending slightly more time than expected off the nhw, as opposed to in the harbour mouth

Purple Sandpiper - single with c130 Turnstone on the wooden jetty

3 Bar-tailed Godwit

3 Knot

Common Sandpiper

Middleton IE

Female Whinchat

Elsewhere

Black Kite - one of unknown origin seen at 0900 and 1015 in the Quernmore valley/Littledale area, presumably the bird over Lancaster late evening of 7th

Wood Warbler - singing male audible this evening, over the other side of the river on the dangerously steep slopes of Winder Wood south, from the Haylot gate at the start of the 5-gate road, upper Roeburndale

Black Tern - maxima at various sites: Heysham (2), Pine Lake (4), JBP (5), Leighton Moss (10) [Pine Lake and 4/5 JBP birds probably the same].

Curlew Sandpiper - one with RP & Dunlin, Halforth, upper Kent.

Short-eared Owl - one Jubilee Tower early afternoon

Cuckoo - Heard/seen at: Jubilee Tower, upper Tarnbrook (there since Monday), Birkbank, upper Roeburndale. Obviously a belated arrival

Spoonbill - still EM Pool