Clear sky trickle livens up late morning

Heysham Obs
Undoubted highlight, two Green Sandpiper together Middleton flying about before heading SE - a bad personal miss of this barely annual visitor for the Patchwork challenge!  Lesser Redpoll with brand new ring from elsewhere (Z318 sequence)

Vis mig
sample count from the north wall 0635-0705
Meadow Pipit - 41 (plus 13 in 30 minutes 1030-1100)
Linnet - 27
alba Wagtail - 7 (2 grounded white for a short time)
Redpoll - 1
Mute Swan - 2 on sea

Heysham NR
Redpoll - 3 flocks flew over whilst putting the nets up - 10 birds plus 6 Lesser caught
Meadow Pipit - just 15
Linnet - 4
Chaffinch - 2 NE high
Rook - single adult high and purposefully to the east (in-off on that line - odd!)

Grounded HNR/OE
Stonechat - female by office
Wheatear - 6 scattered around plus 7 (in one
compact group at OE, including 3 female - suspect they had just come in 10:20)
Chiffchaff - 2 ringed and at least 6 other migrants
Goldcrest - just the one seen/ringed
Redwing - 2 grounded on tank farm then flew high inland

Middleton NR
Shelduck - 2 mbp
Cormorant - 2 mbp
Greylag - 2 briefly mbp then inland
Water Rail - squealing
Gadwall - 14
Tufted Duck - 17
Teal - 2
Mallard - 4
Coot - 4
Mute Swan - 4 ad, 6 2CY
Willow warbler - 9
Chiffchaff - 8 (& 4 unspecified WW/CC)
Blackcap - 1
Swallow - 1 north
Skylark - 2 singing male
Meadow Pipit - 37 grounded

9th April

Heysham Obs
Most of the stuff still hiding in a notebook - post later!

Hey NR Office vis
Meadow Pipit - 84
Redpoll - 1

North Harbour Wall vis 07:00-10:45:
Meadow Pipit - 139
Redpoll - 8
Linnet - 54
Goldfinch - 4
alba wagtail - 9
Woodpigeon - 3
Swallow - 5
Carrion Crow - 15

Grounded
Wheatear on non-op land and 3 Wheatear on North Harbour Wall (2 female, 1 male)
Two Goldcrest and single Blackcap ringed

Middleton NR
No sign/sound Cettis warbler
Water Rail definitely on breeding territory from behaviour in main reedbed (response to playback - standard survey technique)

Moths
Acleris hastiana