A very short seawatch - indeed the first scan - revealed a pair of Common Scoter heading into the Bay. There did not seem to be much prospect of anything else so the seawatch lasted 5 minutes!
North wall 0930ish-0935
Common Scoter - pair in
Great Black-backed Gull - to add to yesterdays census - pair nesting Fisher's roof
Lesser Black-backed Gull - two young Fisher's roof - at least 2-3 days old
Ocean Edge/outfalls
Starling - one carrying food into power station SW corner (very few nesting attempts recorded EDF site)
Wheatear - female on grass - big one
Red Nab consisted of 5 in yellow high vis, two in orange high vis, one in donkey jacket and one in anorak examining the culvert and not a lot of roosting gulls etc. but most of the displaced birds were in view from Ocean Edge
Oystercatcher - 420
Curlew - 32
Shelduck - 2
Common Gull - 178
Insects
Some okish weather by recent standards this afternoon - cold but sunny!
The trap held a single Ingrailed Clay but the new bulb is now in - these 160 blendeds seem to lose the MV element over time and the old, bulb was getting very yellow
Justine had the second Grapholita lunulana for Middleton
Janet had 5 x Burnet Companion on Heysham NR plateau and the following pics:
