Little gull, but little else on the sea

The SW wind continues but not as strong. Showers in the morning, then increasingly bright as the day progressed.

Heysham north wall 0715-0815 - Pete:

The only thing of interest before the weather closed in and the wind went fractionally round to almost SSW (as per harbour turbine) was an adult little gull wheeling into the Bay at 0720hrs

(Three 1st w little gull seen by mark Prestwood at teal bay 1100hrs probably flew out past heysham)

Nature Park - Kevin Eaves:

Green Woodpecker "singing" near the pond

Middleton Nature Reserve - Janet

Still 2 pairs of Shoveler on the main pond

Reed Bunting 

Coal Tit - both by the feeders at the bottom car park

Two Roe Deer at Imperial Rd, a young buck and a female

Heysham skear - Malcolm 12:30 13:30

Barely any skear exposed even at "low" water. We are on neap tides and the SW wind holding back the ebbing tide.

Pale-bellied Brent goose 39 at least feeding and resting. The gutweed here isn't lush but it is plentiful and there is little disturbance.

No Eider seen

Red-breasted Merganser 4

Male Red-breasted Merganser

This female has caught a flatfish, they normally catch small round fish and crabs. This flattie looked to be too wide for her gape, but she tried her best.

She was stuck like this for a while, later a gull flew down and appeared to
pinch it, so I suspect that she eventually gave up

Not a lot of waders, there wasn't a lot of space!

Oystercatcher 300

Curlew 2

Bar-Tailed Godwit 2

Redshank 30

Knot 350 - including a flagged bird seen here last November and then in northwest Ireland in February. The ringing/flagging schemes allow a better understanding of not just long distance movement, but also local and mid distance movement. The objective, of course, is to identify key areas for the birds, so that preservation of certain areas and habitat can help safeguard the birds for the future.

Turnstone 40

Dunlin 30

Dunlin and Knot

Bar-Tailed Godwit, Knot, Turnstone and Oystercatcher
and a Redshank's shanks