A dry day with occasional sunny spells. A west wind.
South shore
Report by Shaun Coyle:
11:15 - 14:15
Med Gull 22 - 8 adults/3CY, single 2CY and 13 1CY (7 between Red Nab and Wooden Pier and 6 harbour entrance and off North Wall).
Kittiwake Juv 1 fed on both outfalls.
Arctic Skua distant dark morph into the bay at 12:10.
Nature Park. 14:15 - 14:45
Peacock 4
Red Admiral 4
Brimstone 2
Meadow Brown 7
Green-veined White 1
Large White 2
Speckled Wood 5
Gatekeeper 3
Common Blue 3
I checked the shore out from Ocean Edge earlier this morning (Malcolm). Only a few Knot on the sand bar.
Curlew 50
Oystercatcher 30
Dunlin 1 flew south
Black-Tailed Godwit 1 flew south high overhead.
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| Black-Tailed Godwit |
Lapwing 8 on saltmarsh
Redshank 41 on saltmarsh and Red Nab
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| Lapwing and Redshank |
Linnet 6 on saltmarsh
Unusually, nothing along the foreshore or Ocean Edge grass, despite minimal disturbance
Rock Pipit 1 on Red Nab
Little Egret 3
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| A good variety on Red Nab. Great Black-Backed gull top. Lesser Black-Backed gull bottom. Two Little Egrets, Mediterranean gulls below the right side egret and below the Lesser Black-Backed gull. The rest Black-Headed gulls |
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| 1st calendar year Black-Headed gull left 1st calendar year Mediterranean gull right |
This is one of the 1st calendar year Mediterranean gulls on No.2 outflow.
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| Peacock and a Red Admiral in the Nature Park |
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| This Koi looking fish was seen in the main pond at Middleton Nature Reserve - Jo Bailey |
