Heysham skear - 08:45 - 10:30 (low water 11:00) (Malcolm)
Eider 17
Red-breasted Merganser 3
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| Red-breasted Mergansers, the males still displaying |
Little Egret 4
Oystercatcher 1,000
Whimbrel 3
Gulls 900 mainly Herring gulls, but there are increasing numbers of Lesser Black-Backed gulls feeding on the seed mussels this year. They were definitely eating the seed mussels, watch the Lesser Black-Backed front centre and you can see it swallowing mussels.
Many of the Herring gulls are in adult plumage.
Marsh Harrier 1 female/immature 10:05. Just as well that I was heading back and facing the shore, or I would have missed it. Normally the gulls alert you to the presence of large raptors, but this one arrived in silence from the south, first seen over the Sunnyslopes. It flew towards the Stone jetty without spooking any birds, it was out of earshot before the gulls began "mobbing" it. Hardly a "mob", just one really, but it did lift all the gulls out from the Stone jetty.
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| Unfortunately, the light was behind it when it was at its nearest to me |
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| Midland Hotel in the background |
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| Stone jetty in the background |
Last seen heading NW
Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)
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| The Mute Swan family now complete with 8 cygnets Lets hope serenity reigns for a while |
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| Common Whitethroat |
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| Common Blue |
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| Azure Blue damselfly |
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