One Knot........does not a summer end.

A light, mainly SW wind. Plenty of sunshine.

Heysham Nature Reserve 

Ringing and vis report from Jean:

Fewer birds caught today at Heysham NR, just 11 in 3 hours, but 2 of them were Willow Warblers, also 

1 Dunnock, 

2 Goldfinch, 

5 Greenfinch 

1 retrapped Blue Tit from Monday. 

One of the Goldfinches and one of the Greenfinches were starting to moult their flight feathers. 

Overhead on their way back to Africa were 40 Swifts, 15 Swallows and 6 House Martins.

South Shore (MD)

Just a very brief check if the foreshore mid morning.

Wheatear 1

Linnet 2 

Goldfinch 2

Swallow 2 individuals south

Nature Park (KE)

Brown Hawker ovipositing in the nature park pond this afternoon. 

Also seen:

Gatekeeper

Common Blue

Small Tortoiseshell

Comma

Peacock

Brimstone

Common Darter 

Male Common Darter

Heysham skear. Low water 14:30 (MD)

Red-breasted Merganser 2 female type

Great Crested Grebe 1

Little Egret 6

I didn't cross the innermost skear where again many waders were feeding. The numbers recorded here are the number seen near the skear edge plus those flying to the innermost skear and any birds visible there from the waterline, so almost certainly under recorded.

Oystercatcher 150

Curlew 100 

Redshank 88

Turnstone 69

Turnstone 

Dunlin 1 

Knot 1 still, largely, in summer plumage.

Knot and Oystercatcher 

This Large Yellow Underwing moth was in my greenhouse 

No need to ask how it got its name

Snipe 7 in one flock flew SW over my garden at 19:00.