A good early start

Very calm early on with just a hint of an east breeze. A light west breeze from mid morning. Sunshine all day.

Seawatch report by Pete:

Sea Heysham 0600-0815 (2 obs): 

316 inbound Arctic tern

19 ‘Comic’ Tern

absolute min of 210 Sandwich Tern

129 Common Scoter

6 Gannet

4 Guillemot

1 Red throated Diver 

2 adult Kittiwake embedded in an Arctic Tern flock

Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)

The Mute Swan family had moved to the "no swimming" pond, possibly influencing what happened next.

A gaggle of 8 Greylag geese were circling over the main pond and then landed,

One brave one to begin with

Then they all landed

No sign of the Mallard chicks today, possibly in hiding.
These two Mallard were "squabbling"!

One Shelduck over

Sparrowhawk

Azure Blue damselfly and an Alder Leaf beetle

North shore

Several (at least 7 of each) six-spot Burnet larvae and pupae along the sea wall today, especially towards the end. Looks like it's going to be a good year for them! - Kevin

I exercised my daughter's dog along the sea wall (Malcolm) I couldn't resist taking a clip of a six-spot Burnet larvae. Not exactly action packed but it has some therapeutic merit. The shadow is the dog passing by.

Rock Pipit 3 - one at Red Nab, one standing "guard" over the lighthouse nest hole while another was flying directly to it (too quickly to see if it was carrying food).

Rock Pipit above the lighthouse nest hole

Whimbrel 7 (3 + 4)

Three of the four Whimbrel resting on No1 outfall

There were a couple of Black-Headed gulls checking out the just
emerging Sandmason worm tubes

The Puffin Island Cormorant still electing to rest on No.2 outfall