A few Meds before bed.

Heavy morning showers, then fine in the afternoon with sunny spells. A light west(ish) wind.

This is one of Janet's shots from yesterday. A Small White and a tiny wasp!

The Small White is easy to see, but you will have to open the image to see
the detail of the parasitic wasp.......it isn't there to smell the flowers!

South shore (Malcolm) 09:30 - 10:00

Just a very quick check from the saltmarsh to Red Nab at high water

Wheatear just 1 on the foreshore 

Quite a stocky Wheatear, it was reluctant to move. In fact it didn't move,
I left it where it was

Just 2 Linnet and a Rock Pipit on Red Nab

No Mediterranean gulls seen.

Something spooked all the Oystercatchers from Red Nab. There was no
human disturbance and no raptor seen. Nothing else lifted, just the Oystercatchers.

Leaving just a scattering of gulls, Curlew and a Cormorant 

Male Chaffinch in the Nature Park, collecting grit from the path

Janet had a walk along the sea wall in the afternoon 

Little Egret

Redshank

Turnsone

This Oystercatcher has a Sandmason worm. It has grabbed the tube and
pulled it clear of the mud. It is then just about removing the worm from its tube

I have no idea why more waders, particularly the ones with long bills,
don't feed on the Sandmason worms like this (Malcolm)

Lesser Black-Backed gull making short work of a shore crab

In the Nature Park:

A very faded Small Copper

A very bright Red Admiral

Large Whites

Painted Lady

Migrant Hawker

Common Darter

I checked again this evening 19:00 - 20:15 (Malcolm)

There were loads of gulls on Red Nab......

.......but I had to go out on to the shore to get the low sun behind me
before I could see them properly 

Nearly all Black-Headed gulls, there were some Mediterranean gulls on the mud. 5 adult and 2 juvenile.

Adult Mediterranean gull (right)

Juvenile Mediterranean gull (centre)

By this time the sun was setting

The gulls flew south to wherever they were going to spend the night

The gulls were not the only ones heading off 

Curlew

Cormorants 

The moon was out as I squelched back (the mud is soft everywhere at the
moment). A waxing gibbous moon, a sure sign that we are moving to spring
tides again. A potentially interesting set of tides ahead.

Just out of the recording area - Andrew Cornall

Lots of clouded yellow just to south of Heysham on fleabane