First Sanderlings of autumn

Light showers in the morning then dry with sunny spells. The freshening SW wind was quite strong by evening.

South shore (Malcolm)

Just a quick look from the saltmarsh to Red Nab towards high water.

Linnet 30 at the saltmarsh 

Linnet

Rock Pipit 2 on Red Nab

Mediterranean gulls 30 at least on Red Nab

But they were drifting off all the time

Only one juvenile seen, no sign of the yellow ringed birds.
Just two previously seen ringed adults 

The juvenile Martin mere Black-Headed gull is still around

Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)

Migrant Hawker

Common Darters - no sign of yesterday's Ruddy Darter

One of three Painted Lady

Small Tortoiseshell 

Silver Y

Heysham skear (Malcolm) 17:00 - 18:30

I went out as the tide was exposing the skear

Shag at least 2 juveniles 

This one was flying south as I walked out

There were at least two feeding, but difficult to spot in the choppy sea.

Juvenile shag, the strong low light making it look lighter than it is.

This one seemed to have finished fishing and set off south. Unfortunately it was lost in the sun just after the end of this clip, so I don't know if it landed again.

Eider 1 male

Great Crested grebe 6

Quite a lot going on here, including the Eider and five of the grebes.
But you will need to open the shot to have much chance of seeing them.

Gulls, mainly Herring 300

Oystercatcher 500

Curlew 50

Redshank 120 - not so many around at first then a flock of 100 arrived

Turnstone 60

Sanderling 2 in non breeding plumage few right past me but were quickly lost in the sun. I tried to relocate, but I didn't even know if they landed or continued south.

Juvenile Turnstone

Redshank

Curlew and Turnstone