Probably the best coverage this year was hampered by early morning fog. Best birds were female Stonechat by the Moneyclose Lane anemometer and a Spotted Flycatcher on Heysham Head along the 'bramble track'. Wanted: birder to cover Heysham Head/Barrows daily during promising migration conditions
Heysham head
Spotted Flycatcher - 1
Blackcap - 3
Goldcrest - 5
Coal Tit - 14 arrived from north
Jay - two ditto
Vis mig Heysham Head (under canopy a lot of the time) 1000-1100:
Chaffinch - 7
Skylark - 5
Siskin - 2
Meadow Pipit - 15
alba Wagtail - 9
Red Nab bushes/coastal section of Middleton (thanks to Tom Wilmer)
Chiffchaff - 7
Blackcap - 2
Stonechat - female by anemometer
South harbour area/outfalls seawall
Rock Pipit - 3 (2 together)
Chiffchaff - one in firecrest brambles
Robin - 2
Kingfisher - one Heysham 2 outfall inner end for 5 minutes
North harbour wall mound area
Wren - 5
Robin - 5
Chiffchaff - 4 together in sea buckthorn
Meadow Pipit - 30
alba Wagtail - 16
Linnet - 19
Goldcrest - 1
Vis mig from coastal sites 0800-0920 intermittently
Meadow Pipit - 120 (including concentrated flightline along the wooden jetty
alba Wagtail - 35
Siskin - 2
Chaffinch - 2
Grey Wagtail - 3
Greylag - at least two SE
Vis mig Middleton
Meadow Pipit - 35
Redpoll - 3
Grey Wagtail - 3
Chaffinch - 6
alba Wagtail - 7
Jay - 1
Grounded Middleton
Goldcrest - 8 along edge of golf course
Coal Tit - 1+
Blackcap - at least 8
Combined ringing totals (new birds) -very slow in the fog
Blackcap (8), Lesser Redpoll (1), Coal Tit (1), Blue Tit (5), Wren (1), Blackbird (1), Meadow Pipit (3), Great Tit (1), Chiffchaff (3), Long-tailed Tit (3)
SEPTEMBER ringing totals = pretty good considering all the earlier season gloom and doom
| 1 | Kingfisher |
| 4 | Sand Martin |
| 114 | Swallow |
| 1 | Tree Pipit |
| 30 | Meadow Pipit |
| 78 | Grey Wagtail |
| 31 | Wren |
| 31 | Dunnock |
| 40 | Robin |
| 1 | Song Thrush |
| 4 | Blackbird |
| 2 | Grasshopper Warbler |
| 3 | Sedge Warbler |
| 13 | Reed Warbler |
| 8 | Lesser Whitethroat |
| 23 | Whitethroat |
| 1 | Garden Warbler |
| 79 | Blackcap |
| 1 | Yellow-browed Warbler |
| 85 | Chiffchaff |
| 20 | Willow Warbler |
| 85 | Goldcrest |
| 1 | Firecrest |
| 14 | Long-tailed Tit |
| 25 | Coal Tit |
| 45 | Blue Tit |
| 23 | Great Tit |
| 1 | Treecreeper |
| 6 | Chaffinch |
| 22 | Greenfinch |
| 100 | Goldfinch |
| 7 | Lesser Redpoll |
| 3 | Bullfinch |
| 19 | Reed Bunting |
