First diving duck returns

A fresh west breeze mainly overcast with light showers.

Not a lot today.

Just a quick sweep by Pete from Ocean Edge 90 minutes before high water, located:

Mediterranean gull 10 (3 juvenile)

Heysham skear - low water 11:20

Great Crested Grebe 5 (2 + 1 + 1 on the water plus 1 flying south)

Eider only 4 today

Little Egret 13

No sign of any Mediterranean gulls. Waders similar to yesterday, minus the off passage flock of Redshank.

Middleton Nature Reserve 

Just a quick check of the three main ponds in the afternoon 

Mute Swan pair plus 9 cygnets on main pond, pair on Tim Butler, the 2 cygnets not seen but they would have been somewhere nearby. 

Mallard 5

Gadwall 7 - female plus 3 young and a male with 2 female/immature 

The male Gadwall, in the foreground of this clip,  is still in eclipse.

This is one of the female/immature Gadwall having a bath

Tufted duck 1 male.

Male Tufted duck, in at least, partial eclipse.
It was being very secretive.

Little grebe 1 adult on Tim Butler 

No dragonflies seen and the only butterflies were a few, Meadow Brown, 1 Gatekeeper, 2 Large White and a Peacock.