Saturday 7 April 2012

A dead calm morning

Heysham Obs
Pretty quiet this morning in a light and variable north to north-easterly with high uniform cloud

Vis mig - flying north-east
Meadow Pipit - 37 (3 ringed)
Lesser Redpoll - 3
Goldfinch - 11
Linnet - 7
Rook - 1
Carrion Crow - 2
Rock Pipit - 1

Grounded
Zero perceptible

WeBS
Wooden jetty:  160 Turnstone, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 1 2CY Shag, 12 Cormorant, 15 Redshank
Fisher's roof: 170 Herring Gull, 53 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 9 Great Black-backed Gull - worth checking this lot for white-wingers in the next few days of wind/rain
Heliport: 92 Oystercatcher, 53 Redshank
Ocean Edge area: no waders on 10m tide but 15 LBBG, 2 Herring Gull
[& out of Obs recording area: Sunny Slopes groyne: 310 Oystercatcher & 2 anglers, Battery groyne: 9 Oystercatcher, 2 Redshank, 3 Cormorant, West End Groyne: 9 LBBG, 6 Herring Gull]

Sea
Dead as regards passage
Red-throated Diver - c7
Sandwich Tern - 8-10
Eider - 141
Black-headed Gull - 72 2CY

Moths
Singles of the usual culprits: Powdered & Common Quaker, Clouded Drab and Hebrew Character