A dry day, but more cloud than of late. A NE cool breeze.
Seawatch report - Pete
Heysham 0630-0830
1 light morph Arctic skua
10 Common scoter
44 Sandwich tern
1 Guillemot
1 Red-Throated Diver
6 Whimbrel
2 Pale bellied Brent Geese
Heysham Nature Reserve (Janet)
 |
| Female Common Blue |
 |
| Male Common Blue |
 |
| A fresh Female Speckled Wood |
 |
| Very worn female Speckled Wood |
 |
| Common Carpet moth |
 |
| Alder Leaf Beetles |
 |
| Red-headed Cardinal (quite apt for today) |
 |
| An elusive Rabbit was the only mammal seen |
Heysham skear (Malcolm) 12:30 14:30
Eider 6
Little Egret 2
Oystercatcher 1,000
Whimbrel 13 minimum, but likely twice that. They were everywhere you looked, but also flying around making eliminating duplication difficult.
 |
| The bottom left bird has something in its bill |
This one appears to eat a small mussel
Curlew just 1
Gulls, mainly Herring 600 - fewer than yesterday but I managed to check more of them for rings today. Slightly surprisingly, after yesterday's five, I only managed to find one and that was a Herring gull that I also saw yesterday.
 |
| Colour ringed 2nd calendar year Herring gull - details awaited |
