Another warm sunny day. The freshening breeze switching from NE to NW in the afternoon.
Heysham Skear (Malcolm)
Two visits today 08:30:10:30 and 17:00:18:30 (numbers are highest total unless stated)
Eider 5
Great Crested Grebe 1
Little Egret 4
Grey Heron 1
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| Grey Heron and Little Egret |
The Heron's style of fishing is much more sedate than yesterday's Little Egret.
Swallow 2 this morning 1 this evening
Oystercatcher 1,000
Curlew 2
Whimbrel 1 this morning 4 this evening
Bar-Tailed Godwit 1 this morning 2 this evening
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| Whimbrel (left) with 2 Bar-Tailed Godwit |
Turnstone 5 were flying around this evening.
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| Turnstone |
Dunlin 4 with Ringed Plover
Ringed Plover 10 (3 + 7)
Gulls - this morning there were 1,100. Many too distant to check for rings, nevertheless I still checked a few hundred and couldn't locate a single ringed bird.
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| Some of this morning's gulls after the tide had lifted them of their feeding grounds |
I returned this evening to try to understand why the birds I can see in the morning do not include any ringed birds. l still don't really know although I have some thoughts. Only 500 gulls returned to feed this evening, but they did include two new ringed birds. One from the North West England Gull Project and another ringed as part of a NE Scotland ringing scheme.
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| Ringed in the NE of Scotland, details awaited |
Just out of the recording area
Heysham Moss Nature Reserve (Janet)
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| Four-spotted Chaser |
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| Broad-bodied Chaser |
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| Large Red Damselfly |
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| Common Heath moth |
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| Sundew |
These shots by Mark Jones at his caravan at Potts Corner
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| Lesser Whitethroat |
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| Rook |
