Saturday, 14 March 2015

Wheatear

Heysham Obs
Highlights were a single male Wheatear on Ocean Edge, an in-off migrant Kestrel and a couple of extra Red-throated Diver

North wall
Eider - 540
Red-throated Diver - 1+2 on
Dunnock - one in mound gorse - migrant?

Vis 0710-0910 (poor!)
alba Wagtail - 9
Meadow Pipit - 8
Kestrel - 'in-off' heading east
Greenfinch - 2

Middleton NR
2 + 6 2CY mute
1 coot
3 moorhen
7 gadwall
10 tufted
6 mallard
10 teal
1 heron
1 pheasant

Ocean Edge
1 snipe (salt marsh)
1 male wheatear
(foreshore)

Red Nab
1 little egret
56 shelduck

129 wigeon between
outflows