Frosty Start

Heysham Obs

North Harbour Wall
45 mixed Finches early on Twite Linnet and Goldfinch
Not quite to plan just 7 birds caught 6 Twite and a Goldfinch.

Adult Med Gull (Czech ringed)
Kittiwake -1

Harbour
Kittiwakes - 8 2CY x 1

Thanks to Malcolm for the extensive Middleton report below.

Had a good walk around Middleton NR today, didn't see any grey wagtails, looks like the green ringed anomaly was in passage. Most resident birds now singing/calling including greenfinch, chaffinch, reed bunting (2), song thrush (2), robin, dunnock and wren.

There were a lot of birds on the boating pond when I first got there (9:00). I have put the numbers for the boating pond in () next to the totals

4 adult mute (6) juvenile

(1) scaup

17 (11) tufted

9 (5) gadwall

(2) pochard (male)

6 (2) mallard

10 (4) coot

3 (1) heron (frogging season!)

(2) little egret

(1) cormorant

(1) lapwing (on peninsular)

7 teal - looks like most of these have moved on

6 moorhen

1 little grebe (western scrape)

1 water rail (dyke north edge of central marsh)

2 stock dove

1 skylark (silent)

36 pinkfoot north 11:25

also

2 snipe OE

85 wigeon (RN)

JM