[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Eric Morecambe Pools #10047

Black-tailed godwit 488 but up to 712 recently
Curlew sandpiper 1 ad
Dunlin 22 including a colour ringed bird not fully read but apparently from West Wales
Redshank 315
Greenshank 4
Little ringed plover 2
Knot 59
Great white egret 8
Cattle egret 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Kingfisher 1
Chiffchaff 8+
Cetti’s warbler brood of 4 newly fledged young by ramp to EM hide
Crossbill 1 flew se
Greenfinch 16

Lesser yellowlegs reported from Jenny Brown’s Point today

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Arnside Estuary Birds #10042

Crossbill flew N over Heathwaite 10.30am yesterday, also Green Woodpecker there too.Family of 7 raven around the top of the Knott

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Lesser Yellowlegs – Eric Morecambe Pools #10013

Lesser yellowlegs still present on Eric Morecambe Pool this morning. It has now emerged that the bird was present for much of the 7th but the observers were unable to establish an ID

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Stone Jetty #9898

06:40 – 10:10

Canada goose 2
Eider 11
Common scoter 12
Long-tailed duck pair flew out, male in full breeding plumage
Red-breasted merganser 1m
Great crested grebe 1
Manx shearwater 36
Fulmar 3
Kittiwake 78
Gannet 24+
Razorbill 1
Auk sp 9
Arctic skua 2 together in 8.55 then out close inshore a bit later. 1 light and 1 dark morph
Skua sp group of 5 in very distantly
Swallow 1
Rock pipit 2

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Leighton Moss #9890

1st s hobby throughout the day yesterday (21st) south if the causeway
Ospreys still being seen daily
Many bearded tit fledglings about already

Common tern seen by others at the Eric Morecambe pool

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Stone Jetty #9791

23/4 18:00-19:30

Red-throated diver 2 out
Arctic tern 53 in and u-turned south of the Jetty in 2 flocks
Sandwich tern 30
Whimbrel 3
Swallow 17 N

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Stone Jetty #9780

15:15-18:10 very flat sea on the incoming tide

Shelduck 6
Common scoter 527 floating in
Red-throated diver 38 floating in
Gannet 6 distantly
Arctic skua 4 dark morph in (1, 3)
Kittiwake 26 in
Sandwich tern c. 70
Common tern 1 in
Arctic tern 261 in 6 flocks
Razorbill 2
Whimbrel 1
Curlew 80 high N
Bar-tailed godwit 19 high N
Swallow 3

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Stone Jetty #9777

8:15-9:15
Eider 54
Arctic skua 1 dark morph out
Kittiwake 14 out
Sandwich tern 14
Whimbrel 1

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Eric Morecambe Hide #9772

14.4.25
5310 black-tailed godwit
37 Bar-tailed godwit
83 avocet
680 redshank
1 Sedge warbler

Pair of garganey at Leighton Moss still at Jackson hide throughout the week and female ring-necked duck still at Lilians yesterday

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Stone Jetty #9771

6.50-8.45

Shelduck 2 N
Arctic skua 1N
Sandwich tern 18
Great crested grebe 2
Sparrowhawk 1
Rock pipit 5 including a pair mating

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Stone Jetty #9743

6:50-8:30
Shelduck 5 N
Osprey 1 N at 8:23
Herring gull 640
Gannet 2
Sandwich tern 6
Meadow pipit just 24 N
Rook 3 N

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Stone Jetty #9741

6:30-8:10 with James Nock

Teal 2
Red-breasted merganser 3
Eider 209
Great crested grebe 2
Sandwich tern 5
Turnstone 49
Meadow pipit 262 N
Linnet 6 N
Swallow 6 N

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Hasty Brow Lane, Torrisholme #9740

Cattle egret still present 5pm today

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Stone Jetty #9698

7.20-9.15

Whooper swan 1
Wigeon 1
Eider 35
Turnstone 27
Rock pipit 2
Meadow pipit 182 N
Swallow 3 N
Sand Martin 10 N
Goldfinch 34 N
Linnet 13 N
Redpoll 7 N
Wheatear 1
Rook 2 N
Chiffchaff 1

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Scoter passage #9668

Common scoter, wigeon and coot all heard over my Morecambe garden on 24th around 8pm

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Bolton-le-Sands #9567

Amazing point blank views of 13 twite in the horse paddock below Bay View Garden Centre this morning SD48026871. Came to within 3-4m of me watching from the tidal road. In my opinion this is easily the best place in our area for getting close views of twite as they often come to this road or even inside the paddock to drink from puddles or scavenge the tidal debris. Also 28 Skylark, 3 Linnet in the same area and a near miss from a male sparrowhawk targeting the twite.

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Water pipit and hawfinches #9502

2 water pipit mid afternoon. One on the spoil following digger all afternoon, very close at times. In the next few weeks the machine will move to the other side of the pool which should give closer viewing opportunities as these are currently quite hard to see from the hide

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Water pipit and hawfinches #9499

Water pipit again at Grisedale hide, also stonechat. Bittern tuning up audible from here too and at least 3 doing so across the whole site already

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Ringed-necked Duck #9486

Present on Causeway Pool yesterday but back at Lilians today.

First bittern of the year heard tuning up on 22nd.

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Bank house cockersand #9479

414 whooper swan spread across four separate groups. 2 bewicks swan at SD440537

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Ringed-necked Duck #9470

Seen at Causeway Hide, Leighton Moss this morning but not there late afternoon

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Water pipit and hawfinches #9469

Amazing sight of a single flock of 27 or 28 hawfinches flew over the road at Challan Hall Allotment heading east into Gait Barrows 9.15am

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Water pipit and hawfinches #9467

Water pipit again this morning, in flight over the path heading towards Tim Jackson pool

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Morecambe seafront and Pine Lake #9459

The great Northern diver is still present at Pine Lake favouring the north east part of the lake

[Nick Godden]

in reply to: Hawfinches #9319

Four flew northeast over Waterslack 30/11/12 approx 9am

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