Friday 8 April 2016

Clear night clearout

Heysham Obs
Yesterday's 'headwind fall' melted away overnight and predictably replaced by not a great deal (apart from the mixed pickle clearance sale at the local shop)

North wall/low tide offshore
Large gulls - c450, high proportion of immatures, on the offshore skeers
Eider - 260
Great-crested Grebe - 2
Red-breasted merganser - 2
Sandwich tern - 2'

Grounded
Wheatear - just 4 OE foreshore
single Goldcrest, Chiffchaff and Willow Warbler ringed by office

Vis mig
Desperate
Meadow Pipit - 15
alba Wagtail - 5
Jackdaw - 1
Woodpigeon - 13
Lesser Redpoll -4
Linnet - 6
Swallow - 4

Middleton model boat pond
Tufted Duck - 13
Gadwall - male
Little Grebe - 1
Coot seem to have disappeared

Miscellany
5 Little Egret OE/Red Nab
Cetti's Warbler - both singing males - one by no swimming pond the other  singing from brambles between fence pond and fence at west end
Common Gull - 10 seaward end Heysham one outfall
Willow warbler - at least 4 Middleton