Heysham Obs
The first 'insect day' for some time produced lots of bumble bee spp and a single Comma in the NE corner of Heysham NR. Some attritional seawatching in the early morning and during the Radio 3 early music hour produced a few Kittiwakes, Red-throats and single Gannet & Sandwich Tern.
North harbour wall 0730-0930 & 1300-1400 BST
Red-throated Diver - one in 0800, 2 in 0900, 1 out 0922, one in 1310
Sandwich tern - one out 1330
Kittiwake - 16+20 in 0845, 30 in 0854, 2 in 0910, 16 out 0917, 16 out (having floated in with tide) 1330. Therefore minimum of 68.
Gannet - adult out 0830
Vis mig
Meadow Pipit 13 N 0730-0930, 2 N 1300-1400
Grounded
Goldcrest - 5 on reserve circuit
Chiffchaff - 3 on reserve circuit, one a singing bird which has been round a few days & 2 definite migrants together
No Wheatear reported today
North harbour wall feeder
Twite - 5 early morning (2 ringed), later 10-11.
Linnet - 7
Elsewhere
Ross's Goose, Barnacle Goose and two Whooper Swan Aldcliffe Marsh
