Sunday 15 April 2012

Lesser Whitethroat new for the year

Heysham Obs
Office area
Not a lot of vis this morning and highlighted by:
Lesser Whitethroat - singing male moved quickly though in the half-light, then presumably the same singing in the tank farm area next to the office later in the morning
Siskin  - 1 NE
Meadow Pipit - 22 NE
Goldfinch - 13 NE
Linnet - 11 NE
Swallow - 2 NE
alba Wagtail 5 NE, including at last one White (grounded briefly)
Willow Warbler - one ringed - the only evidence of a migrant
Chiffchaff - female trapped and ringed - the only evidence of a migrant

Sea 0625-1645, 0800-0900
Sandwich Tern - 79 'in'
Red-throated  Diver - 2 in

Ocean Edge foreshore/Red Nab
Bar-tailed Godwit - 487
Knot - 270
Dunlin - 43
Redshank - 47

Tideline towards Potts corner
Grey Plover - 16
Dunlin - 22
Knot - 46

Moths
Stunning - Agonopterix heracliana and a dead Hebrew Character