Albatross!

 A dry sunny day. The wind was still quite fresh but from NW today. 

Black-Browed Albatross seen by Ian Hartley from the Battery car park. He managed to track it out past Sunyslopes groyne before it was lost from view.

This from Pete:

Sea Heysham 0705-0830:  wind too NW for here: Leachs: just one seemingly tired bird at 0712 which didn’t go through my fixed scope position but was picked up flying slowly out on a scan then seemed to land on the choppy sea

distant Manx Shearwater out

Guillemot out

2  Razorbill/guillemot

1 Common scoter out

c60 pink feet north and a lot of shelduck

South shore - Malcolm 10:00 - 11:30

Linnet 30+ feeding on saltmarsh 

Meadow Pipit 3 grounded on foreshore then inland

Meadow Pipit

Rock Pipit 1 on foreshore, 1 between foreshore and Red Nab, 2 on Red Nab

Rock Pipit

Grey Wagtail 1 flew across Red Nab

Wheatear on foreshore

Bar-Tailed Godwit just out from the foreshore 

Curlew just out from the foreshore 

Common Tern 1 on No.1 outfall

Mediterranean Gull - 1 2nd calendar year turned up on the beach by the wooden jetty. A 1st calendar year out from the harbour 

2cy Mediterranean gull

Shelduck 98. There were c50 scattered around out from Red Nab when I walked out. More arrived as I came back.

Shelduck arriving

The ones on the mud were mainly resting. These in the freshwater runoff 
were drinking

In the Nature Park 

Migrant Hawker 1

Common Darter 3

Speckled Wood 5

Middleton Nature Reserve southern section - Janet

Chiffchaff singing 

Three Common Darters sunning themselves on the wooden bridge

Migrant Hawker 

Four-spotted Orb-weaver
It's shots like this that makes you grateful that you are not a small fly!