Saturday 16 February 2008

The news in brief

Heysham Obs

North Harbour Wall
8 Red-throated Divers early morning feeding in the channel just beyond the buoys.
6 more Twite ringed and 11 retrapped.

Red Nab
32 Twite - probably the same birds as those at the sandplant at 0930hrs .
Little Egret.

Middleton Industral Estate
2 Mute Swan, 14 Coot, 7 Teal, 7 Mallard, 5 Tufted Duck, 1 Pochard, 2 Goldeneye (pr), 1 Little Grebe.

Elsewhere
Mediterranean Gull at Holmere, 2 Whooper Swans Aldcliffe Marsh, Green Sandpiper Borrow Pools, Aldcliffe.