A heavy shower at 07:00 then dry and largely sunny. A light west wind.
Stone Jetty
Nick Godden
6.40-7.55am, sadly I couldn’t stay for the incoming tide
Eider 45
Great crested grebe 2
Arctic skua 1 dark morph
Common tern 2
Sandwich tern 1
Cuckoo male landed on end of Jetty, mobbed by rock pipits then flew off to south
Swallow 12 N
Heysham South Harbour Wall (6.45 – 8.45 am) - Pete Crooks
Osprey – seemingly regular individual with right leg blue darvic ring eating a fish on the marker post at the end of Heysham Stage Two outfall from 7.00 to 8.00 am
11 Gannet – very distant offshore
9 Auk sp. – all distant in flight
4 Common Scoter – flew into the Bay
2 Great Crested Grebe – flew into the Bay
5 Sandwich Tern
14 Sanderling – single group flew out of the Bay
Osprey – seemingly regular individual with right leg blue darvic ring eating a fish on the marker post at the end of Heysham Stage Two outfall from 7.00 to 8.00 am
11 Gannet – very distant offshore
9 Auk sp. – all distant in flight
4 Common Scoter – flew into the Bay
2 Great Crested Grebe – flew into the Bay
5 Sandwich Tern
14 Sanderling – single group flew out of the Bay
The above two reports are extracts from the complete reports posted on LDBWS website.
https://lancasterbirdwatching.org.uk/sightings/
Delayed Seawatch Heysham pre webs 1105-1148 - Pete (M)
Kittiwake - flock 12 in
Gannet - one out v distant
Common Scoter - 15,5 in
Guillemot - 1 out
R/G (Razorbill or Guillemot)- 3 out
Nothing of note on WeBS
The cuckoo that had landed on stone jetty before flying south was presumably the same heard/seen by Alan Physic and David Kaye on Heysham head later
Kittiwake - flock 12 in
Gannet - one out v distant
Common Scoter - 15,5 in
Guillemot - 1 out
R/G (Razorbill or Guillemot)- 3 out
Nothing of note on WeBS
The cuckoo that had landed on stone jetty before flying south was presumably the same heard/seen by Alan Physic and David Kaye on Heysham head later
Heysham skear - Malcolm 07:45 - 08:45
Eider 3 (pair plus a male)
Great Crested Grebe 1
Little Egret 11
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| Eider, Herring Gull and Little Egret |
The onshore wind was ideal for catching shrimps close inshore, this Little Egret catches what looks to be a shrimp in this clip.
Curlew 1
Whimbrel 4
Ringed Plover 5
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| Ringed Plover |
Imperial Rd - Malcolm
Just a 15 minute stop off on my way home.
Singing warblers
Sedge 3
Chiffchaff 1
Cetti's 1
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| Foliage is now obscuring the Raven's nest, but a single call was heard from the copse |
Long-Tailed Tit just a single foraging bird
Swallow 1 and House Martin 1 feeding
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| Jackdaws combing the horse paddock |
Buzzard 1
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| Buzzard being buzzed by a Carrion Crow |
Magpies also present making up 4 corvid species here, 5 with the Rookery just along the bypass
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| Female Broad-bodied Chaser |
Middleton Nature Reserve - Janet
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| A couple of 2cy Mute Swans flying over the main pond |
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| Carrion Crow |
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| Loads of fresh Damselfly |
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| Green-Veined White |
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