Heysham South Harbour Wall – 50-minute sea-watch from the lighthouse (8.45 – 9.35 am)
Gannet – 4 flew into the Bay, then back out about 15 minutes later
Red-throated Diver – 1 on sea off North Harbour Wall
Common Tern – 2 lingering off North Harbour Wall
Great Crested Grebe – 3 offshore
Rock Pipit – 4 between Heysham Harbour and Stage One outfall
Middleton Parish Hall
Glossy Ibis – again in the horse paddock behind the Parish Hall at 10.00 am
Knowlys Road, Heysham
Common Redstart – 1 male on the leeward side of the hawthorn hedge extending down from Knowlys Road to the promenade
Pale-bellied Brent Geese – 11 roosting on the shoreline at low tide (plus a distant Malcolm Downham)
Eric Morecambe Pools (from Crag Road viewpoint)
Avocet – 40 on salt-marsh pools
Pink-footed Geese – 365 on salt-marsh beyond EM Pools
Pochard – 2 (male, female) on Barrow Scout
Pine Lake
Common Scoter – 1 female in NE corner, keeping out of the way of the water skier at 12.00 pm
Aldcliffe Marsh – mid-afternoon
Common Sandpiper – 1 on river opposite the Golden Ball
Wheatear – 1 male on salt-marsh
Mixed hirundine flock – 5+ House Martin, 10+ Swallow and 1 Sand Martin at south end of Wildfowlers’ Pools
Lesser Whitethroat – 1 singing at south end Wildfowlers’ Pools
Little Ringed Plover 4 – 2 on Wildfowlers’ Pools, 2 on flooded field at end of Aldcliffe Hall Lane
Pete C
