Pretty much the same stuff

Mainly overcast with the odd light shower. A light west breeze.

Middleton Nature Reserve - Janet

Silver Y, hovering to feed

Six-spot Burnet

South shore

Shaun managed a quick check of Red Nab and the outfalls this morning 

Mediterranean Gull 11 - 8 adults and 3 x 3cy. 

Janet checked later

One of two Little Egret

No Mediterranean gulls seen

Pied Wagtail with either a mate or young to feed

I checked from 15:45 - 17:15 - Malcolm

In the Nature Park 

Ringlet 6

Meadow Brown 1

Painted Lady 1

Peregrine Falcon 3 - an adult flew across the Nature Park. 2 juveniles were buzzing the gulls around the Power Stations 

Juvenile Peregrine Falcon

I went to watch the feeding beach by the wooden jetty become exposed. I know that there are hardly any Sandmason worm tubes high up the shore, but perhaps any arriving Mediterranean Gulls wouldn't. One adult did turn up as soon it the mud was exposed, but didn't stay long!

You can see that there are some embryonic Sandmason tubes just showing, but clearly no feeding opportunities yet.

It flew over to the beach between the outfalls.......

.......and joined 3 other adult Mediterranean gulls

As I was heading back a 3rd calendar year Mediterranean gull tried feeding
along the waterline of the beach by the wooden jetty, there are a few more
Sandmason worm tubes further out

Shag 1 2nd calendar year on the wooden jetty

Shag, second from the left, with Cormorants 

This shot is from 5 days ago. A Herring gull with 2 chicks on one of the
Harbour platforms 

This is one of the, slightly larger, chicks today. Its sibling was hiding 
behind a bollard, waiting for an adult to return 

Cormorant in the harbour have a spruce up

Gulls on Red Nab. Left to right: Great Black-backed, Lesser Black-backed
and Herring gulls

Curlew c150 in several groups north

Between the lighthouse and the waterfall:

Rock Pipit 1

Pied Wagtail 1

Linnet 7

Goldfinch 2

Most of the Linnet were on the perimeter fence, but this one obliged briefly 

Goldfinch having a drink

Kestrel 1 feeding over the saltmarsh