Bank Holiday break?

A dry day with sunny spells. Very light variable breezes

Pete Crooks checked again:

Sea-watch from south side of harbour mouth – 8.10 – 9.30 am – Flat calm sea, with distant ‘blocking’ cloud offshore.
1 2nd CY Little Gull – regular individual again off the end of the outfalls
1 2nd CY Shag – again stood on the beach by the end of HS2 outfall
21 Kittiwake – groups of 15 and 6 sat on sea, slowly drifting in
2 Guillemot
1 male Common Scoter
8 Sandwich Tern
5 Swallow – flying into the Bay low over the sea
2 Grey Seal

Middleton Nature Reserve 

Report by Alan:

I went to Middleton early this morning not expecting to catch much and that is what happened. The total catch was only ten birds although the first capture was a Sedge Warbler ringed elsewhere
With little ringing to do I took the opportunity to carry out some ride maintenance between net rounds.
The catch was:
Sedge Warbler  2 + 1 recovery
Reed Warbler  2
Chiffchaff  1
Willow Warbler  1
Single retraps of Great Tit. Dunnock and Wren. 

Yesterday's report of a Hobby has been removed as it was only a probable sighting, at distance at Heysham Nature Reserve on Wednesday.

Heysham skear - Malcolm 09:15 - 10:30

A very pleasant walk around the skear, but apart from Oystercatchers, very little to see.

Eider pair

Red-breasted Merganser, 2 males and 3 females, initially all feeding as individuals, but the 3 females came together as the tide flow increased.

Red-breasted Mergansers

Sandwich Tern 2

Whimbrel 7 moving north when the tide lifted them off the skear

Turnstone 1

This is the green marker post. Yesterday it was just off vertical, there has been
nothing in the weather or tide that would be likely to cause this lean. Presumably 
something in the support structure has broken.