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  • Pete Crooks
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      Pine Lake – 20 Mute Swan

      Eric Morecambe Pools (from Crag Road viewpoint, 8.05 – 8.40 am)
      5 Great White Egret – on small pools beyond Eric Morecambe Pools and Allen Pool
      1 male Sparrowhawk – flew past viewpoint towards Crag Foot carrying prey item
      1 female Eider – Eric Morecambe Pool South
      2 Little Grebe – Barrow Scout Fields

      Eric Morecambe Pools (from hides, 8.50 – 9.50 am)
      31 Mediterranean Gull (11 adults, 2 2nd summer, 18 1st summer) – roosting on Allen Pool, most moved off after a female Marsh Harrier flushed all the gulls and waders.
      82 Avocet – 63 adults/full-grown juveniles and 2 + 1 small young on Eric Morecambe Pool North, 15 adults/full-grown juveniles and 1 small young on Allen Pool.
      1 adult male Ruff – Allen Pool
      1 adult summer Dunlin – Allen Pool
      11 Black-tailed Godwit – Allen Pool
      1 Common Sandpiper – Allen Pool

      Copridding Wood, Arnside (10.20 – 11.15 am)
      1 Dark Green Fritillary
      92 Ringlet – very numerous!
      3 Large Skipper
      8 Silver Y moth

      Aldcliffe Road, Lancaster
      1 Hummingbird Hawk-moth – by canal path near turning to Haverbreaks at 3.00 pm

      Pete C

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