Early Sandwich

It soon cleared up after overnight rain and became warm and sunny. A light east wind.

Heysham skear - low water 10:20 (Malcolm)

We are back to neap tides and not much of the skear was exposed. No sign of any Brent Geese, Mergansers or Grebes.

Eider 25

Sandwich Tern 1 - first one this year

Sandwich Tern

Knot 450 to begin with, but they moved off, not spooked, to the south before low water.

Other waders as recent.

Turnstone

Cormorant in breeding plumage

Meadow Pipits just 5 in/off today

Imperial Road (Malcolm)

Buzzard 1

Buzzard

Wood Pigeon 55

Stock Dove 1

Stock Dove

Little Egret 1

Pheasant 1 male

Cetti's warbler 1 singing by the wooden gate near the roundabout.

Chiffchaff 2

Middleton Nature Reserve (Janet)

Chiffchaff

This male Reed Bunting tried to muscle in on the easy pickings below
the car park feeders.....

.....but the regular male saw it off.

Comma

Peacock, slightly worse for wear after managing to overwinter 

Middleton Rd Rookery (Malcolm)

A passing check saw 9 nests and 12 Rooks.

This Rook was breaking off a suitable nest twig.....

.......before taking it to its nest

Just out of the recording area - just across the road in the horse paddock. Grey Wagtail.

Male Grey Wagtail