Monday, 6 August 2012

Moths and Oystercatchers dominate the numbers

Heysham Obs
Ocean Edge/Red Nab
Little Gull - adult
Kittiwake - 2CY
Med Gull - 4 juvs, ad & 2CY (Czech-ringed adult seen a week last Sunday along the north wall)
Oystercatcher - 2100
Redshank - 206

Dragonflies
Single Common & Brown Hawker & male Emperor on the dog-walk pond

Moths
About 200 of 54 species including the long-awaited Barred Rivulet, Lime-speck Pug (not so common these days), Eudonia pallida, Agonopterix ocellana, Dingy Shears and Pebble Prominent