Pete managed an hour sea watching 07:20 - 08:20
Avocet 2 - flying south over the sea with a small flock of Curlew. Avocets are not recorded here every year.
Gannet 1 adult
Red-Throated diver 2
Common Scoter 4
South shore
Wheatear 1 male on foreshore then Red Nab at 10:00. Later Alan Larsen saw 1 male on Red Nab then the rocky foreshore to the south, possibly the same bird.
Rock Pipits 6 (1 foreshore, 1 Red Nab, 2 lighthouse, 2 waterfall - the lighthouse birds not seen earlier, but were on territory when Alan checked)
Nothing else on the roundhead scrub reported today.
Shelduck c60
Wigeon only 4 seen
Heysham skeer - low water 15:45
Eider were well spread but at least 50
Wigeon 4 (2+2 both pairs left quickly south)
No Great Crested grebe seen
Red-breasted Merganser just 2 seen
Redshank routinely swim across the pools, but these were different. One actually flies in to land on the water. I presume it's more to do with finding a partner than finding food (MD)
They are not the most graceful swimmers!