Friday 2 September 2011

Bits and pieces in the grot

Heysham Obs
Right at the bottom end of a wadge of rain with winds which were SE to begin with before turning westerly late morning

Vis mig (mainly early morning)
Flava Wagtail - 1
Grey Wagtail - 3 (2+1)
Meadow Pipit - 6
Swallow - 16
Chaffinch - 2

Grounded
nothing perceptible apart from possibly one 'new in' Chiffchaff!

Outfalls/Red Nab/Ocean Edge foreshore
Grey Plover - 375
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1,700
Knot - c4,000
Dunlin - 50
Med Gull - 6 1CY (one juv, 5 1st W) and just the one adult
Little Gull - 2CY & adult
Sandwich Tern - 2

Moths
Latish White-line Dart headed a small catch of what was otherwise the usual suspects