A warm, dry sunny day with a light variable breeze. It topped 20°C just before lunch.
Middleton Nature Reserve - Janet
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| Adult Coot with chick |
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| Since the aggressive male Swan has gone all the chicks are doing well. |
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| There are five in this younger brood. |
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| Broad-bodied Chaser |
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| Four-Spotted Chaser |
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| Common Bluetail Damselflies |
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| Green Veined White |
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| Small Heath one of four - first records this year. |
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| Burnet Companion - also first record this year |
Heysham Skear - Malcolm 13:30 - 14:00
The incoming tide was close to covering the skear. This concentrates whatever birds have hung on, but you don't get long to check them.
A passing Osprey at 13:35 lifted all the Oystercatchers and Gulls
But there were other waders:
Curlew 4
Whimbrel 2
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| A constantly calling Whimbrel |
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| Redshank |
Knot 1
Dunlin 4
Ringed Plover 8 (7 + 1 came in/off, possibly just returning after the Osprey lifted everything)
Sanderling 68 - initially on the north side then left to the south
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| Some of the Sanderling on what little was left on the northern skear edge |
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| Then leaving to the south |
Little Egret 3
Eider 3 (1 female)
Great Crested Grebe 3
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| Great Crested Grebe |
Not bad for a 30 minutes stroll
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| My garden gate had attracted another moth - Light Brown Apple Moth |
