This really is the winter of the unreliable and elusive at Heysham, probably due to complex circuits including extensive private or difficult to access terrain. Notably ‘the’ Black Redstart. Early winter, a Black necked Grebe was staled out on the Lune Estuary, then a gap before a single date multiple observation a bit further down the coast. This morning in the incoming tide a reliable and experienced observer was watching as it or another flew into the slacker and shallow inshore water off Heysham Head, being dwarfed by nearby RBMs and GCGs. It then fed intensively until lost from sight after 30 mins of spending the majority of time under water.
Worth checking equivalent stage of tide tomorrow?
Eider - 12
Single figures of RBM and GCG
Med gull - ad by play area
Salt marsh
Jack snipe 1
Common snipe 12
Rock pipit 1
