Overcast to begin with then rain from mid morning till early afternoon, a dry and occasionally sunny afternoon and evening. A light east breeze moved to the SW by evening.
North Harbour wall (Jean) 06:25 - 09:05
35 Common Scoter
1 Whimbrel
1 Common Sandpiper (first record this year)
39 Sandwich Tern
7 Lesser Black-backed Gull
3 Red-throated Diver
2 Swallow
2 Pied/White Wagtail
1 Rock Pipit
5 Linnet
South shore (Malcolm) 09:45 - 11:00
Wheatear 1 on foreshore
Rock Pipit 3 - one on the sea wall and two between the lighthouse and the waterfall.
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| Rock Pipit on inner harbour wall. Pete has identified one boundary. The white mooring bollard on the south side of the building at gate 38 is the territorial boundary of two male rock pipit. Both were subsonging sat on the bollard then chased off by the other! |
Linnet 6 - 2 on foreshore and 4 between lighthouse and waterfall
Whimbrel 4 - 2 grounded and 2 north
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| Whimbrel |
Viewed from the Stone Jetty (Nick Godden)
15:15-18:10 very flat sea on the incoming tide
Shelduck 6
Common scoter 527 floating in
Red-throated diver 38 floating in
Gannet 6 distantly
Arctic skua 4 dark morph in (1, 3)
Kittiwake 26 in
Sandwich tern c. 70
Common tern 1 in
Arctic tern 261 in 6 flocks
Razorbill 2
Whimbrel 1
Curlew 80 high N
Bar-tailed godwit 19 high N
Swallow 3
The above report is copied from Nick's post on the LDBWS webpage.
Out from Harbour (Cornelius Jones)
Red-Necked Grebe 2 on the sea - several birders happy with the identification, based on this back of a camera shot,
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| Back of a camera shot, original image to follow. |
North wall (Malcolm) 17:00 - 18:30
No Arctic Terns seen
Sandwich Terns at least 50 but most not likely to be additional to Nick's.
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| They were constantly moving through in low numbers, many having a rest on the buoys before moving on |
Guillemot 40-50 mainly summer plumage on the sea distantly
Eider 2 + 3 out
Curlew 46 to NW these would not have been seen from the jetty.
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| White Wagtail 1 |
Osprey 1 flew south just as I was heading back
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| Osprey |
Juvenile shag fishing just north of Heysham Head
Pale-bellied Brent geese 2 this morning
