The wind provides

A very strong SW wind throughout the night continued all day. Some showers.

Seawatching:

Nick Godden from Stone Jetty 06:40 – 10:10

Canada goose 2
Eider 11
Common scoter 12
Long-tailed duck pair flew out, male in full breeding plumage
Red-breasted merganser 1m
Great crested grebe 1
Manx shearwater 36
Fulmar 3
Kittiwake 78
Gannet 24+
Razorbill 1
Auk sp 9
Arctic skua 2 together in 8.55 then out close inshore a bit later. 1 light and 1 dark morph
Skua sp group of 5 in 

Pete Crooks from North Harbour wall 07:55 - 10:15:

Gannet – 7 flew in distantly 7.55-9.59 am, 10 flew out 9.05-10.25 am

Fulmar – 4 flew out 8.10-9.33 am

Kittiwake – 12 (11 adults, 1 1st S) flew in at 8.14 am, 1 1st S flew out at 8.20 am, 20 (18 adults, 2 1st S) flew in then U-turned and flew back out at 8.25 am

Manx Shearwater 23 flew into the Bay distantly 8.35-8.58 am, 88 flew out of the Bay closer in 8.46-10.11 am

Also: 5 Common Scoter, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 2 Auk sp.

The above two reports are part of more detailed posts on the LDBWS webpage.

https://lancasterbirdwatching.org.uk/sightings/

South sea wall (Janet)

Black-Headed gull

Herring gull

Black-Headed gull and Lesser Black-Backed gull

Female Eider battling the sea

Two more Eider heading towards Blackpool 

The survey boat, also battling the waves, inside the harbour!

Heysham Nature Reserve (Janet)

Male Common Blue

Female Common Blue

Large Skipper

Burnet Companion 

Large Red Damselfly and a Green Shieldbug

A nice enigmatic shot of Cuckoo spit

Rudd in the dipping pond

Imperial Rd (Malcolm)

A 20 minute visit mid morning moving no further than 25m from where the wooden gate used to be:

No Buzzard seen or heard

Sparrowhawk 1

Mistle Thrush 1 feeding

Song Thrush 1 singing.

Great Spotted Woodpecker 1 flew to the copse

Sedge Warbler and Chiffchaff singing

Common Whitethroat 1 taking food to the nest

Stonechat 2 (female and male). Only one glimpse of the male but several of the female, but only briefly. Each time she was feeding then flying to the same area where presumably she was taking food to chicks.

The best vantage point is to sit on one of the rocks where the wooden gate was:

This is looking SW from the rock I was sat on. The circled area is
roughly were both birds were seen flying to.

Female Stonechat on one of the posts in the foreground of the above location shot

But she didn't stay anywhere for long

This Roebuck looks to be eating bramble leaves.

I had a another look in passing this evening 17:00. The roles were reversed the male Stonechat was the most active bird. This shot from my car, parked where the wooden gate used to be.

Male Stonechat. I was quite pleased as I had considered that this morning's
 Sparrowhawk may have been the reason that I only glimpsed the male once
this morning.