Hopefully the power station outages will reach a stage soon when they are back in full flow. There was not a single bird on them for at least 15 mins today!
Avocet - three together flew south quite close inshore and purposeful at about 0844hrs. No reports of them from the Fylde I’m aware of. Very odd
Arctic tern - a very late gang of 15 appeared from nowhere to briefly feed in a riffle with bhgs before heading in and climbing about 0855
Sandwich tern - 3
Whimbrel - 1
Grey seal - 1
The observatory was set up in 1980. It involves ringing,'vis mig' counts (including seabirds) and general monitoring in the Heysham Nature reserve/power stations/harbour area. The statutory moth trap is in place and also a daily log for butterflies, dragonflies etc. We share an office, kindly provided by EDF Energy, with the County Wildlife Trust. This is located next to the Nature Reserve car park. Do call in. Please leave sightings in the letterbox, ESPECIALLY 'fly-by' seabirds.