A warm sunny day with a light westish breeze.
Heysham skear - low water 11:50 (Malcolm)
Little Egret 7
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| Little Egret feeding below the Honeycomb worm reefs on the north side of the skear |
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| Little Egret feeding amongst the lower Honeycomb worm beds on the south side |
Eider 2 both resting on an exposed reef.
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| Eider and a young gull |
Red-breasted Merganser 1 female type
Great Crested Grebe 3
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| Great Crested Grebe |
This cormorant has caught a flounder that is too wide to pass through its gape, it eventually discarded it.
Oystercatcher c400
Redshank 60
Turnstone 3
Curlew 40
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| Curlew and Redshank |
Swift 1 south
Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)
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| Grey Heron |
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| Reed warbler |
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| Swift |
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| House Martin |
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| Swallow and House Martin |
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| Immature Swallow still with a gape |
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| Black-tailed Skimmers |
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| Common Darter |
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| Common Blue |
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| Small White |
There were several lots of gulls anting over the recording area this evening. These ants were emerging from Janet's garden.
