It was hat and gloves weather again!

Significantly cooler today, not helped by a fresh SW wind. It warmed up in the evening as the sun finally broke through.

About 45 Canada geese in total grounded by yesterdays thunder c0730  
Out from Sandylands promenade - Graham Wheeler 

Middleton Nature Reserve - Janet

House Martin

Swallow

Male Pheasant

First Large Skipper this year

Bee Orchid

On a visit this evening, there was a Koi Carp swimming near the spit on the main pond.

Quite a large Koi Carp

Heysham Skear - Malcolm 13:30 - 15:30

It was surprisingly cool on the skear, I ended up with my wooly hat and gloves on!

Eider 1 female

Female Eider

Red -breasted Merganser 1

Great Crested Grebe 1

Shag 1 2nd calendar year

It had been swimming around

But then climbed onto a rock to freshen up.

Little Egret 2

I was there quite early in the ebbing tide so I could see where the waders were arriving from.

Oystercatcher were arriving all the time, almost all from the south.

Curlew 1 arrived from the east

Knot 1 just appeared 

Knot

Sanderling 22 in two flocks 4 and 18 came from the north, shaped to land but didn't and continued south.

Sanderling 

Ringed Plover 2 arrived from the north and settled high up the skear

Ringed Plover

Gulls c450. Three new green ringed birds for this year were read.

This one ringed as a Herring gull at Bowland in 2022, is now showing signs
of it being a hybrid with a Lesser Black-backed gull

Bell Aire Park - Alison Hayward

A nice pair of fruit flies - Chaetostomella cylindrica, a  tephritid fruit fly