The sea didn't really provide today

A bit more overcast today, with a light mid morning shower. Sunny spells and a light east breeze.

Pete

Sea dreadful other than:

71 Common Scoter, just 3 Sandwich tern and inbound flock 56 Arctic tern seen by Pete Crooks and Shaun Coyle and flock 13 seen by Jean, plus a Guillemot. Thick cloud at the mouth of the Bay the problem? 

Outfalls: 2cy Kittiwake and Little gull still in situ.  
24 bar-tailed godwit and 5 whimbrel OE shore

Janet had a walk along the south sea wall

2nd calendar year Black-Headed gull with a small fish

Whimbrel 

Three Little Egret on Red Nab

Rock Pipit

Turnstone

Heysham skear - Malcolm 10:45 - 11:45

Eider 18

Female Eider

Red-breasted Merganser 5 

Four males still in pursuit of a solitary femal

Sandwich Tern 5 most seen at one time

Knot c1000, but quickly moved on by a hunting Peregrine Falcon

Knot

Whimbrel at least 6

Whimbrel and Knot

The Peregrine ended up patrolling a small wader free skear

Swallow 1

Middleton Nature Reserve 

These shots by Janet

Proud Mallard Mum

Coot waiting to be a Mum

Large Red Damselfly 

This female Orange Tip was tiny!

This warbler count from Kevin and Alison:

We counted 9 warbler sp. Sadly, the missing one that was needed to make a perfect 10 was the usually reliable Lesser Whitethroat. 
Common Whitethroat, Seemingly everywhere on the reserve. 
Blackcap, several. 
Willow Warbler, numerous and widespread. 
Cetti's Warbler. 
Chiffchaff. 
Sedge Warbler, mainly by the central marsh
Grasshopper Warbler, one near where the old brick building was on the path that borders the central marsh. 
Reed Warbler, in the reeds on the edge of the main pond. 
Garden Warbler, one continuously singing on the path above the main pond.
Quite a haul!