A dry day till light evening showers. A light variable breeze freshened by evening and ended up from WNW
Pete:
Heysham: outfalls:
2cy Little Gull feeding at seaward end of outfalls even at high tide
2 ad and 2cy Kittiwake
19 Pale bellied Brent red nab.
Seawatch 0650-0750
Sandwich Tern - 47 in and 18 inshore around the yellow buoys
Arctic Tern - flock of 5 in climbing
Kittiwake - 1,2 in
Red throated Diver - 1,1,2 out
just one Common Scoter!
Nature Park - Kevin Eaves
I paused for a while by the small anemometer, where the small trees and bushes seem to attract small birds. I wasn't disappointed and managed to hear:
Blackcap
Willow warbler
Chiffchaff
Plus Robin, Dunnock, Wren, Blackbird and Wood Pigeon
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| Chiffchaff |
Middleton Nature Reserve - Janet
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| Female Tufted Duck |
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| Male Tufted Duck |
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| Chiffchaff |
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| Willow Warbler |
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| Female Blackcap |
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| One of two Common Whitethroat |
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| Speckled Wood - first one this year |
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| Male Orange Tip |
Heysham skear - Malcolm 11:45 - 12:30 and 16:30 - 17:30
Pale-bellied brent goose 43 this morning, perhaps more interesting was that there were none feeding on the skear this evening.
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| Black and white birds - Brent geese and Oystercatcher |
Eider 25
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| Three male and a female Eider |
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| Sandwich Tern |
Little Egret 2
Knot c2500 chased north by a Peregrine this morning, c3000 this evening. Some flags seen identifying today's Knot as the same ones that have been around for this set of neap tides. We're starting to move back to spring tides now, it will be interesting to see what happens.
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| Some are quite strikingly red now |
No Godwits or Sanderling seen
Whimbrel 1 heard this evening
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| It had been nice all day, but rain was approaching and soon caught me up! |
Dan Haywood checked the Incoming neap tide from Stone jetty 1500-1745
180 Kittiwakes in 8 flocks
one flock of 18 common scoter
Bats are active around Janet's house
