Good coverage

Heavy overnight rain, then showers in the morning started at 008:30. A light south wind.

Shaun made an early start and covered most of the recording area:

Middleton NR 06:30-08:00 

No Swimming Pond.

Little Grebe pair,

Goosander 4 - 1 male + 3 female 

Teal 1 male

Great Spotted Woodpecker pair

Redwing 6

Cetti's Warbler 5, probably 6 singing, including one near the 'top car park'.

Chiffchaff 14 (all between Main Pond and Tim Butler, with just one singing).

Nature Park walk to Red Nab.

Chiffchaff 4, 

Goldcrest 2 

Long-tailed Tit 5 

Bar-tailed Godwit 7 feeding next to wooden jetty. 

Later in the afternoon there were 2 Goldcrest in the scrub by the lighthouse - Kevin Eaves

From Knowlys Rd

Pale-bellied Brent Goose 32 off play area

Shag  on the smaller rock close to Condor Rock 

I just managed a couple of short morning checks (Malcolm)

Ocean Edge foreshore during a shower (not much!)

Meadow Pipit 4 and Pied Wagtail 1 grounded

Imperial Rd 

I just called in between showers mid morning, there was a lot going on.

Peregrine Falcon 1 south

Kestrel 1 male north

No sign of Buzzards today

Greylag Goose 4

Greylag coming in to land

Shelduck 3, although not for long, on this occasion 3 was a crowd.

Mallard 2

Teal 2

Gadwall 6 south

Wood Pigeon 21

Redwing 1

Jackdaw 25

Magpie 13

Carrion Crow 4

Meadow Pipit 5 north

Chiffchaff 1 singing

Greenfinch 15 seemed to be waiting for the rain to stop, these are just some of them.

Just out of the recording area - horse paddock behind Middleton Parish Hall

Glossy Ibis still feeding