A pair of Velvet Scoters

A warm (21.5°C) dry day. A light east breeze early on quickly switched to the west.

Seawatch report - Pete

Sea: 1020-1120 from back of harbour: 

Velvet scoter - male and female in together

264 Common Scoter out including u-turning flock of 180

tight flock of five adult Kittiwake on

five sandwich tern in

four separate Guillemot floating in 

39 Common Gull floating in plus grey seal and lot of flotsam

2 willow warbler in roadside vegetation gate 38 road 

Pale-bellied Brent goose 6 south from north sea wall - David Kaye

Heysham skear 09:00 - 10:00 (Malcolm)

Eider 16

Female Eider

Male Eider

Red -breasted Merganser 4

Great Crested Grebe 2

Sandwich Tern 2 fishing

Little Egret 6

Little Egret with a small flatfish 

Gulls 300 mainly Herring

Oystercatcher 2,000

Curlew 1

Whimbrel 8

Whimbrel 

Bar-Tailed Godwit 18 along the waterline out from Heysham Head.

Redshank 3

Grey Seal 1

Grey Seal with a flatfish (that's a green plastic bottle behind)

Ocean Edge 14:30 - 15:00 (Malcolm)

I went specifically to see if the male Wheatear was hanging around the slipway. It wasn't. But there was a female further along the foreshore 

Female Wheatear

Whimbrel 3 on the saltmarsh 

Shelduck 2

Linnet 6

Meadow Pipit 1

In the Nature Park 

Hairy Shieldbugs

Peacock - other butterflies: Large White, Small White, orange Tip and Speckled Wood.

Warblers heard

Willow Warbler 1

Lesser Whitethroat 2

Common Whitethroat 1

Blackcap 1

Chiffchaff 1

Imperial Rd (Malcolm)

Just a quick look on my way home.

Buzzard 2

This one was waiting in the trees at the side of the copse

Its mate arrived and both flew deeper into the copse, but I couldn't relocate. A little later one flew east, presumably off hunting.

Buzzard chased by a Carrion Crow as it set off east

Kestrel 1

Male Kestrel

Carrion Crow keeping lookout from the crows nest

Greylag Geese 2 in the field to the east of the road

Greylag Geese

Warblers heard:

Cetti's Warbler 1 near the pond on the south end of the road

Common Whitethroat 2

Lesser Whitethroat 4

Chiffchaff 1

Roebuck legging it