A warm sunny day, with a light variable wind
South shore
Yellow-Legged gull - a second summer was on No.2 outflow yesterday morning at 08:00. Located by Steven Higginbottom, who also took these excellent pictures.
2nd summer Yellow-Legged gull with a Lesser Black-Backed gull |
Shaun Coyle checked Red Nab to Heysham Harbour 11:00 to 13:00.
Mediterranean Gull 31 (adult 21, 2nd summer 6 and 4 1st summer).
First summer Kittiwake roosting on Wooden Pier.
Ringlet 7 and 4 Gatekeepers Heysham Nature Park.
I had a look this evening (Malcolm)
The first summer Kittiwake was resting on the sloping wall, pretty much where the second summer was yesterday, between the outflows |
Peregrine Falcon - 2 very noisy birds. Not a great clip, but you can hear some of their screaming.
Heysham skear - low water 08:30 (Malcolm)
There isn't normally much on and around the skear at this time of year, but I went down thinking that at least there should be something different to the north side. The first bird I came across was not so different!
Mediterranean gull on the inner skear |
Other gulls:
Herring gull 350
Lesser Black-Backed gull 25
Black-Headed gull 20
Little Egret 13 minimum. These were on the south side, feeding amongst the honeycomb worm beds.
Eider 5
Eider and some of the grebes |
Oystercatcher 500
Curlew 100
Redshank 12 (3 + 9)
Dunlin 1 summer plumage
Janet saw 2 Red Admiral on Heysham Head, lots of Six-spot Burnet and Meadow Browns on scrub near lighthouse.
This Blackneck moth was on MNR yesterday |