Heysham Obs
Ringing recoveries
The two 'vis mig' Lesser Redpolls bearing rings from elsewhere were next to each other in the net, but had very different ring numbers and were not surprisingly from completely separate locations. A wadge of Twite were from the 'usual' stop-off site at the feeder at Machrihanish Seabird Observatory on the Mull of Kintyre.
Twite
L445310 5F 21.01.11 Heysham
Controlled 4F 15.04.11 Machrihanish Seabird Observatory (Argyll & Bute) 239km
R687796 6F 24.03.09 Heysham
Controlled 4F 15.04.11 Machrihanish Seabird Observatory (Argyll & Bute) 239 km
V240449 3F 25.10.10 Heysham
Controlled 4F 16.04.10 Machrihanish Seabird Observatory (Argyll & Bute) 239 km
V240496 3F 07.11.10 Heysham
Controlled 4F 15.04.11 Machrihanish Seabird Observatory (Argyll & Bute) 239 km
Lesser Redpoll
X948530 5F 17.03.11 Warsop (Nottingham)
Controlled 5 09.04.11 Heysham 148 km
X546179 3M 16.10.10 Orfordness (Suffolk)
Controlled 5 09.04.11 Heysham 370 km
Insects
The HNR butterfly census saw 28 Gatekeeper but no sign of any Grayling.
The moth trap was productive species-wise if not numbers with the following highlights: single Garden Tiger, Toadflax Pug, Dingy Footman, Beautiful Golden Y (very rare here), Agriphila geniculea and two of the migrant pyralid Rusty Dot Pearl
