Heysham Obs
Not windy enough.
North harbour wall/seawatching from outfalls side to 1100hrs
Diver spp - one out & one landing by yellow buoys early afternoon
Whooper Swan - 24 SSW 0857hrs and 5 ad & 1 imm similarly 0908hrs
Mute Swan - 2 out close inshore
Rock Pipit - 1
Linnet - 3
Twite - 3
Pintail - 11 out
Shelduck - 228 out
Shag - 4 juvs at the waterfall (& one Cormorant) - one of these has a British ring which should be readable if/when it sits on the lower tier of the platform - and indeed the last four digits were duly read by Jon Wright and Richard Du Feu late afternoon. This should be enough to trace a juv i.e. definitely ringed in 2008.
Med Gull - 2 adults
Stage 2 outfall/Red Nab
Kingfisher - 1
Wigeon - 23
Arctic Tern - ad & juv
Little Gull - 2nd W early am only
Merlin - early afternoon
Middleton IE
12 Coot, 9 Tufted Duck, 3 Pochard, 2 Mallard, 12 Teal, 3 Snipe
Moths
Large Wainscot and Brick in the trap, the latter new for the year
Elsewhere
Female Scaup Freeman's Pool and Common Scoter Conder Pool
