The sea is starting to stir interest

Heavy overnight rain then morning showers. Mainly overcast with a strong SW wind.

Seawatch report - Pete just 45 minutes 

1 immature Gannet

2 Manx Shearwater

1 very distant auk spp 

1 x 1st summer Mediterranean gull

1 adult common tern briefly on outfalls area

Imperial Rd (Malcolm)

I checked twice today 09:00 and 16:00 but failed to relocate yesterday's Stonechat.

Still, there was quite a lot going on.

Buzzard 1 seen on three occasions. Once this morning being mobbed by a gull as it flew east, then 10 minutes later, presumably the same bird returned to the copse with food.

Buzzard and gull

Possibly a young rabbit or squirrel with vegetation grabbed as well

This afternoon one was patrolling the wetland area hovering like a Kestrel in the strong SW wind. 

Greylag goose 2 over to the west 

Grey Heron 1

Song Thrush 1 singing

Swallow 2 feeding

Pheasant 3 males seen

Male Pheasant

Cetti's warbler 2 singing (one at each end of the road)

Sedge warbler 2 singing 3 feeding

Common Whitethroat 1 taking food to nest

Chiffchaff 1 singing

Male Greenfinch taking a break during a light shower,
also Chaffinch and Linnet seen/heard

A typical view of a female Roe Deer

Yellow Flag Irises looking splendid 

Heysham skear (Malcolm) 12:30 - 13:45

Eider 4

Red-breasted Merganser 1 male

Male Red Breasted Merganser

Great Crested Grebe 2 
Oystercatcher 800

Knot 10 in non breeding plumage flew southwest into the wind.

Knot

Gulls, initially there were only 50 and I was thinking that the changed conditions were providing other feeding opportunities, but numbers increased slowly and there were c500 by the time I left. No new ringed birds seen, but a previously seen Herring gull was spotted.

This Herring gull, ringed at Bowland in 2024, was seen a few days ago.
And that seems to be the trend. With the exception on one Herring gull that 
has been seen four times from 7/05 to 23/05, other ringed birds are either only
seen once, or two or three times over a short period, then not again. You have to
think that seed mussels form only part of a balanced diet.