A light SE wind in the morning, becoming lighter and more varied after lunch. Largely overcast but dry.
Early check from Stone Jetty - Nick Godden
Just a short visit 6.25-7.20
Common scoter 11
Arctic tern 67 in one flock
Sandwich tern c. 40
Arctic skua 1 dark morph in
Seawatch report from Pete:
Heysham sea totals 0725-1015 intermittent:
46 outbound sandwich tern,
c50 Common scoter,
5 Red Throated Diver - including a flock of 3 2cy
9 Manx Shearwater - including a flock of 7
2 Gannet
2 dark morph Arctic Skua - flying out distantly and landed out of sight on the sea and presumably floated in (possibly one of these the one seen by Nick)
8 Guillemot,
3 Canada goose,
35 swallow,
65 ringed plover high to north.
This Saturday there is an opportunity to join in with a LDBWS seawatch from Heysham Head. With expert guides. Open to non LDBWS members - see link below.
I had a walk along the south shore 08:30 - 10:00 (MD)
Linnet 8
Wheatear 20 at least - I saw 11 on Ocean Edge grass/foreshore - but they must have been moving through quickly today, when Jean checked at 11:00 there was only 1, but at 14:45 there were another 10 seen by Kevin.
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| Male Wheatear |
Rock Pipit 4 - 1 on Red Nab plus 3 bickering around the lighthouse
Whimbrel 2 - both feeding along the wrack line, this one at the base of the foreshore rocks.
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| and this one along the base of the sloping sea wall |
Shelduck 11 resting on mud
No sign of any Kittiwake today
Turnstone c100 roosting on wooden jetty
Middleton Nature Reserve
Ringing report from Alan:
Ringing at Middleton today 05.30 to 10.45. Good conditions this morning with light SE'ish wind although fairly heavy cloud cover all round.
Blackbird 2
Sedge Warbler 7
Common Whitethroat 2
Lesser Whitethroat 6 + 1 retrap
Garden Warbler 2
Willow Warbler 3 retraps
Lesser Redpoll 2
Blackcap 2
Great Tit 1
Greenfinch 1
Chiffchaff 1
Wren 1
Long-tailed Tit1
Dunnock 1
Tree Pipit 1
Blue tit 1 retrap
