Roost count for the BTO survey on 27th, last week’s weather was too bad to count accurately.

Black-headed gull 5130
Common gull 760
Herring gull 230
Lesser black-backed gull 95
Great black-backed gull 17
Red-breasted merganser 4
Peregrine 1
Jackdaw 780 pre roost at Teal Bay

At the same time another 430 Common gull and 1440 Black-headed gull roosted off the slag tips, and at Silverdale another 4108 Black-headed gull roosted. So a total of c.10,680 black-headed gull roosting between Morecambe and Arnside