Heysham North Harbour Wall (6.45 – 9.15 am)
2 Arctic Skua – 1 dark morph, 1 light morph – flew in and landed on the sea just before I arrived (seen by Mark Prestwood)
6 Gannet – flying in (with 1 flying out – presumably one of these)
3 Red-throated Diver – flying in
1 Guillemot – flying out
37 Kittiwake – flying out
70 Common Scoter – groups of 9, c.40 and 20 fyling in (plus 20 flying out)
1 female Red-breasted Merganser – flying out
1 male Goosander – flying in
3 Little Egret – flying in very distantly
2 Sandwich Tern
1 Common Whitethrat – singing male beyond gate on sea wall
Eric Morecambe Pools, from Crag Road (9.45 – 10.25 am)
1 Osprey – stood on post on Carnforth Marsh eating a fish
58 Avocet
23 Little Egret
275 Bar-tailed Godwit – Eric Morecambe Pool North
110 Black-tailed Godwit – Allen Pool
2 Eider and 2 Wigeon – Eric Morecambe Pool South
7 Pochard (5 males, 2 females) – Barrow Scout Fields
Warton Crag (10.30 – 12.15 pm)
8 species of Butterfly – Brimstone, Common Blue, Dingy Skipper, Green Hairstreak, Large White, Orange-tip, Small Heath and Speckled Wood, but no Pearl-bordered Fritillary
Pete C
