First Wheatear and Sand Martin

Another unseasonably warm day, peaking at 18.5° this afternoon. A freshening east wind.

Shaun Coyle had a good walk around the recording area.

Heysham Head 07:00: 

PB Brent Geese 73. 

Pink-footed Goose 65 north plus 60 west later

Whooper Swan  1 north plus what looked to be a group of swans on a sand bar well on the way to Barrow.

Little Egret 5.

Two pairs of Rock Pipits.

Heysham NR: 

Two Chiffchaffs singing.

Red Nab: 

Wigeon 233 

Shelduck 52.

Little Egret 2.

Rock Pipit pair on the seawall near Outfall 1 and another pair at the Lighthouse/Harbour mouth. 

Adult type Shag roosting on the Wooden Jetty.

Ocean Edge: 

Two male Wheatears - first records this year

BY Middleton (scrub & marsh):

Two singing Cetti's Warblers 

2 pairs of Reed Bunting. 

Great Spotted Woodpecker 

Sand Martin 1 heading north - first records of the year

Middleton NR:

Cetti's Warbler 3 singing 

5 singing Chiffchaffs. 

Raven heading east 

a single Redwing!

Main Pond 

Little Grebe pair

Coot 6

Tufted Duck 2m + f 

Gadwall 11.

No Swimming Pond - Mute Swan pair, 

Coot 2 and 

Gadwall 6.

Tim Butler Pond

Teal pair.

Janet also had a look later

The Coots were bickering.....

.........again

Comma

Small Tortoiseshell - 2 Brimstone also seen

Five spot Ladybird 

Some of 60+ Pink-Footed geese heading north this afternoon 

I watched the tide slowly uncover the skear late morning (Malcolm)

Some of the brent Geese

Pink-Footed goose 95 and 12 south, plus 62 NW, these will be what Shaun saw, and possibly Janet's birds too. So 172 minimum total for the day.

A low south bound skein of Pink-Footed geese.
Great Crested Grebe on the water

Eider 18

Red-breasted Merganser 2

Great Crested Grebe 2

Black-Headed gulls 70+ in several small groups flying low to the north.

Black-Headed gulls

Meadows Pipits 8 individuals heading NE

Oystercatchers 500

Curlew 20

Curlew and Oystercatcher 

Knot 650, unfortunately disturbed by two Peregrines, not a pair as both were the same size.

Redshank 120

Redshank

Dunlin 30

Ringed Plover just 1 seen

Turnstone 43

All the Turnstone grouped together after a Peregrine attack had lifted everything.

Small Tortoiseshell 1 in/off the sea

Just outside the recording area

Hummingbird hawkmoth in a garden in Overton yesterday, seen by two different people. (Reported on Facebook - Janet)