Saturday 19 April 2008

Auk fest (by our standards!)

Heysham Obs

North harbour wall
0700-1000
3 Red-throated Diver
3 Gannet
1 Fulmar
10 Razorbill floating in on tide
2 Guillemot
sev auk sp
10 Sandwich Tern 'out' distant
Meadow Pipit 10 NE
Linnet 10
Goldfinch 5
Turnstone 120 min. Wooden Jetty plus Purple Sandpiper.

Outfalls
116 Common Gulls
15 Black-headed Gulls

Middleton IE
Lesser Whitethroat in song - first of the year.
4 Mute Swan (one nesting on Fence Pond), 7 Coot, 2 Morrhen, 3 Little Grebe, 4 Tufted Duck, 6 Mallard

Nature Park
Chiffchaff in song
1 Stoat

Elsewhere
Leighton Moss, EM Pools - 30 Avocet, 1 Spotted Redshank, up to 1500 Black-tailed Godwit.
Aldcliffe - 2 White Wagtail, pr Little Ringed Plover, Common Sandpiper, Willow Warblers
Jenny Brown's Point - Whimbrel, 2 Red-throated Diver, 14 Sandwich Tern, 1 Swallow (so not yet summer).