Murky afternoon

Heysham Obs
Twite - 3 on north harbour wall. 6 over harbour pm.

Purple Sandpiper 3 roosting on lower beams of wooden jetty at high tide one of which proceeded to bathe in the sea, then preening back on the jetty.

Turnstone - 70 at roost with Purps.

Ocean Edge

Mute Swan - one adult

Dunlin - 21 + 6 at Red Nab

+ observed as wated covered salt mash (MD)

176 lapwing

49 snipe (0 jack snipe)

c60 golded plover (flying low SE)

3 goldeneye (flying NW - not the three from the IE)

Ringed Plover - the often elusive flock of 12 roosting on beach by Ocean Edge saltmarsh, including a metal-ringed male (trying to chase the others off) and another sighting of the following colour-ringed individual:

NW23526 Adult female

Ringed as a nestling at Snettisham, Norfolk on 16/7/04

Subsequently nested at Snettisham in at least 2005, 2006 and 2008

Seen: Cockersands on 30/9/07 by Ian Hartley

Seen: Ocean Edge caravan park foreshore 19/9/08 & 14/11/08 & 14/2/09

Middleton Industrial est

9 mute

12 coot

1 moorhen

3 goldeneye

4 mallard

7 tufted

4 teal

1 snipe

Elsewhere
Ad Med Gull Skerton Weir. 5 Tundra Bean just out of the area at Bone Hill near Pilling. Waxwing still Leighton Drive and single Spotted Redshank & Green Sandpiper Aldcliffe