A light west breeze. An overcast morning then a combination of sunshine and mist in the afternoon.
A couple of shots from Janet:
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| A Herring Gull collecting nest material at Half Moon Bay yesterday |
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| Another Silver Y on Middleton Nature Reserve today |
I escorted a field trip around Heysham Head 10:30 - 12:00 (Malcolm)
Greylag goose 12 flew low to the south, east of the Head.
Eider 4
Little Egret 2
Swallow 6 north
Rock Pipit at least 2 below the cliffs.
Linnet 3
Goldfinch 9
Chiffchaff 1 singing
Blackcap 1 singing near the car park
Willow Warbler 1 seen
Common Whitethroat 3 - 2 singing males and a female
Lesser Whitethroat 1 singing
House Sparrow 30 plus in the two fields to the south of the head
Kestrel 1 female hunting
Jackdaw 5
Magpie 2
Carrion Crow 1
Wood Pigeon 6
Robin, Dunlin and Wrens singing.
Heysham skear (Malcolm)
I went out this evening on the ebbing tide. It was almost surreal. I was in bright sunshine the whole time, but a fog bank came in......
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| ........first obscuring the harbour and Power Stations |
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| Then the Head and Heysham village disappeared |
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| Then all of Morecambe was gone - the fog bank then continued north and reality slowly returned. |
Eider 53
Red-breasted Merganser 4
Little Egret 5
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| A sunlit Little Egret with fog bound Morecambe for a backdrop |
Oystercatcher 1,000
Knot 350
Curlew 2
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| Curlew and Lesser Black-Backed gull |
Whimbrel 7 at least
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| Whimbrel, with the now returning Heysham in the background |
Turnstone 11 in one flock
No Godwit, Redshank, Dunlin or Sanderlings seen
These are doing very well this year
There are always some around, but every pool seems to have a population this year. I say population because although they look like a feathery plant they are in fact colonies of tiny animals. They are Hydroids (part of the Hydrozoa class). I believe this species is Whiteweed, but I would be happy to be corrected (Malcolm)
