Another Yellow-Legged gull.......and this time with pictures!

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.

Great Crested Grebe 6 summer plumage birds in one group, although one was slightly detached.

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