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.
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| 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.
