Seawatch - Pete, Jean and Mark Prestwood
Report by Jean:
Seen from the North Harbour Wall and going into the Bay unless stated 06:20-10:50
Canada Goose 1
Shelduck 1
Common Scoter 3
Great Crested Grebe 2
Bar-tailed Godwit 85
Kittiwake 17
Sandwich Tern 48 out, 41 in
Arctic Tern 51
Guillemot 6 out 28 floating in
Razorbill 1
Swallow 27
Linnet 2 north and 2 present
Redpoll 8
Goldfinch 2
Rock Pipit present
Carrion Crow 2 present and 3 others seen but chased off by the residents.
3 Porpoise close in.
The southern yellow buoy was dragged under by the strong tidal current. The pilot boat came out to look for it, gave up and went back to the harbour. Close to high tide it resurfaced - the buoy returned! At first it looked like a shark’s fin then the rest of it emerged from the deep.
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| A lonely north buoy with the southern buoy under water |
From Knowlys Rd - Pete
Avocet 4 distant flying north along the low tide channel.
Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)
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| Sparrowhawk |
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| Common Whitethroat |
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| First Silver Y of the year |
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| Female Orange Tip |
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| This female Orange Tip appears to be laying an egg. |
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| Teneral Damselfly |
Heysham Skear - low water 18:25 (Malcolm)
My only outing today, it's a busy week. The skear is a very large area at low water on these spring tides, and many of the waders would have been on the outer skear. I probably saw more birds yesterday when the skear was only postage stamp sized!
Little Egret 6
Eider 92
Great Crested Grebe 1
Oystercatcher 500
Knot 60
Turnstone - just one heard
Whimbrel at least 16. I am very disappointed with this clip of 3 flying over. They were calling constantly and I was sure I would get a decent recording, as it is you can barely hear them at all.
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| Dunlin |
Ringed Plover 1
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| Male Ringed Plover |
