Another decent seawatch - and at a more civilised time!

A light north breeze in the morning. It freshened and moved to the west in the afternoon. Overcast till the sun broke through for a while in the early evening.

Seawatch report from Pete:

Quite a decent sample from hey north wall 0800-0900: 

Arctic Skua 1dark morph

Arctic tern 60 in dribs and drabs (largest flock just 14)

Common tern 1

Sandwich tern 76

Razorbill 1

Guillemot 3

Red-Throated Diver 3

Gannet 3

Whimbrel 10

Common scoter 22

two lots of two Harbour porpoise (one pair mid range, one close)

Heysham Head mid morning (MD)

Sandwich Terns still moving through - another 12 seen.

Eider 3 on the sea

Shelduck 2 east

Bar-Tailed Godwit 9

Whimbrel 1

Carrion Crow 11 NE

Swallow 3 north

Rock Pipit 5 at least. I checked the shore all along the Head. There appeared to be 4 birds holding territory plus at least one other that was constantly being moved on.

This Rock Pipit flew off with this sea slater

Wheatear 1 - it was too large for a Rock Pipit to see off, but it wasn't welcomed on this ones patch.

Linnet 10

Greenfinch 3

South shore - early evening (MD)

Wheatear 6 near the saltmarsh 

Wheatears with the sun behind them

Rock Pipit 2 (Red Nab and Lighthouse)

Linnet 8

Greenfinch 2

Shelduck 20 resting 

Common Scoter 9 out

Curlew 4

Whimbrel 2

Black-Tailed Godwit 3 in summer plumage

Black-Tailed Godwit

They had been feeding on the mud out from the foreshore, but then found a pool of freshwater from the runoff at Red Nab. They had a drink and a wash......

.......before heading off to the SE towards the Lune estuary