Whistle stop

Heysham Obs
North wall
Med Gull - ad
Purple Sandpiper - at least one on the rocks next to the wooden jetty with c30 Turnstone

Middleton Industrial Est
4 mute
14 coot
4 moorhen
2 little grebe (still in winter plumage, but together and calling)
3 pochard (2 male)
27 tufted
8 teal
12 mallard
3 goldeneye (1 male)
4 snipe
1 heron (frogging season!)


Ringing details of Pink-footed Goose
This bird was 1/2 km east of the Obs recording area boundary when this ring was read and therefore easily "seen from"! The closest the bypass PF geese came to landing in the recording area - most were 1-3km to the east

Bird ID: CGTJT
Metal ring: 1428053
First Ringed
16/12/2007
Loch of Lintrathen, ANGUS, Scotland

Re-sighted
30/12/2008
Cockerham Moss Edge
LANCASHIRE

08/01/2009
Preesall Park, Preesall
LANCASHIRE

08/01/2009
Cockers Dyke, Pilling
LANCASHIRE

09/02/2009
Head Dyke Lane, Pilling
LANCASHIRE

15/02/2009
near Heysham
LANCASHIRE

Moth
First Hebrew Character of the year in the hut trap (contrasting with 93 moths of 11 species at Millhouses MV trap!)

Elsewhere
Great Grey Shrike still Dalton Crags by trig point - a good run of sightings of this often very elusive/'impossible' to find bird. Redhead Smew Leighton from mid-morning, but very mobile spending quite a bit of time in the main dyke & visiting Public & Lilians meres. Tundra Bean Goose with the Sand Villa PF flock = in LDBWS recording area. 8 Whooper Swan still between Gressingham bridge & Melling. Additional male Mandarin of unknown origin with free-flying collection at Ashley's Farm, High Tatham