Heysham North Harbour Wall (8.20 – 10.50 am) – Just about enough interest to persevere given that I’d missed PJM’s early morning Pom and Arctic Skua.
5 Gannet (flying out of the Bay)
7 Common Scoter (flying in, landing on the sea, then continuing into the Bay)
1 Red-throated Diver (flying out)
6 Razorbill (5 + 1 flying out)
29 ‘auk sp’ (5 + 11 + 3 + 10 flying in very distantly)
20 Kittiwake (10 + 5 + 1 + 1 + 3 flying out, mostly distantly)
3 Sanderling (flying out)
4 Sandwich Tern
Eric Morecambe Pools (from Crag Road – 11.20 – 12.50 pm)
6 Spoonbill – asleep on the Eric Morecambe Pool, later split into 3 + 1 feeding and 2 asleep
1 Great White Egret – south end of Barrow Scout Fields
43 Avocet – mostly on the Allen Pool
2 3rd CY Mediterranean Gull – Allen Pool
1 Sandwich Tern – Allen Pool
1 Black Swan – Flood
2 female Goosander, 1 immature Red-breasted Merganser, 2 Eider – all on Eric Morecambe Pool
39 Eider – outer edge of Carnforth Marsh at high tide
(No sign of Little Gull reported on Allen Pool, but parts of the pool are obscured from the Crag Road viewpoint)
Pete C
