Hirundines still moving through

A dry, largely sunny day with a light SW wind.

Heliport yesterday 

Stonechat 2

Bar-Tailed Godwit 1

Knowlys Rd today

2 Swallows and a House Martin 

Both the above by David Kaye

Heysham skear - low water 09:40 (Malcolm)

Pink-Footed goose 128 in one flock south, just as I was leaving at 10:50

Pink-Footed geese

Shelduck 5 north

Eider 2 males 

Eider

Red-breasted Merganser 8

Two male Mergansers trying to impress a female

Great Crested Grebe 8

Little Egret 16

Little Egret amongst the Honeycomb worm beds on the south side of the skear.
Reefs do occasionally form on this side, but this is the side that takes the brunt
of the storms and they seldom last long  

Whooper Swan 8 south, including 5 immature birds.

Whooper Swans

Approximate wader numbers

Oystercatcher 1500

Curlew 30

Redshank 60

Turnstone 30

Ringed Plover 8

Knot just 100 grounded, but several thousand waders that looked to be Knot were flying very high to the south. 5 - 6 flocks but all around 09:00.

These grounded Knot were particularly approachable 

Middleton Nature Reserve 

Janet checked first:

Another adult Mute Swan landed on the main pond

Presumably it was a male as the resident male quickly saw it off

Female Pheasant 

Three different fungi growing from one bail of mown grass

Yellow Brain (Witches' butter) fungus

I just checked the two main ponds briefly this afternoon (Malcolm)

Wildfowl status as yesterday except there were 13 Gadwall today.

Male Gadwall

Cetti's warbler 1 singing

I believe that at least the lower insect here is one of the many Spider Wasps

I took this shot on the skear this morning, whenever I see a daylight moon I try
and get a shot of a bird flying in front of it. I've not managed it yet, but getting closer!