Very heavy showers on and off all day. A fresh NW wind
Seawatch report Pete - on and off 0620-0830 plus 15 mins Stone Jetty on abortive skua chase - tricky with a lot of rain and no scope shelter - best viewing point had a stanchion 1/2 way across the field of view!
Failure with target species in this weather (Fulmar) but could have missed a lot of stuff
Gannet - 27 in 12 out
Kittiwake - 2 out, 15,6 in
Arctic Skua - 2 dark morph in landed as rain overtook them!
Pomarine Skua - one Light morph in then lost behind stanchion - either deep troughed or landed on sea
Guillemot - 2 floating in
Sandwich Tern - 9 out early on then 6 in further out
South shore - Malcolm
I somehow managed a walk along the sea wall and almost back in sunshine.
Linnet 2 around the saltmarsh plus 2 near the waterfall
Wheatear 2 along the foreshore
Shelduck 4 on Red Nab
Whimbrel 2 and Curlew 3 flew south from Red Nab
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| Curlew and Whimbrel |
Little Egret 2 on Red Nab
Osprey 1 had been resting on the post at the end of No.2 outfall but headed south, chased/followed by gulls, before I could get close.
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| Osprey heading south |
Rock Pipit 2 near the lighthouse, both collecting food.
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| Rock Pipit with what looks like a large Sea Slater. They normally start with small portions when first feeding the chicks. |
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| Both Carrion Crows on the nest in the harbour, the male left and the female settled down in the nest again |
Linnet 2 and male Blackbird 1 on the perimeter wire above the scrub between the lighthouse and waterfall.
Another squall was on its way, so I only checked the sea for 15 minutes from the lighthouse 10:00 - 10:15:
Gannet 1 adult out
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| Gannet passing the wooden jetty |
Sandwich Tern 2 in together
Common Tern 1 in
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| The new "wind assisted" SenaLine ferry presumably extracted a significant amount of energy from today's wind |
Middleton Nature Reserve main pond - Janet
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| Male Shoveler, hopefully the female is somewhere close by |
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| House Martin |
Heysham skear - Malcolm 16:15 - 17:15
Even less than yesterday, no Terns seen
Eider pair flew south
Little Egret 2
Bar-Tailed Godwit 33
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| Bar-Tailed Godwit circling the skear |
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| Whimbrel |
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| This Angle Shades rested on my garden gate all day |
