[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Yellow-browed Warblers #6484

Still one at Heysham NR wandserwing around with Goldcrests eastern end and dog walk track parallel to Moneyclose Lane

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Hest Bank Turtle Dove #6463

Present all day today and survived the dog walker onslaught feeding regularly

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Grey Phalarope #6443

Managed to see it by scoping into the harbour from the end of the single track potholed road running past the IOM ferry terminal today (& Jean, Rosie, Mario). It was hugging the inner end of the north harbour wall about half way along below the white ‘silos’. Both the harbour and power station police are aware of its presence and therefore birders expected along that sensitive road which today saved the taxing walk in driving rain past the outfalls. Please give your details on request. It may go in the calm weather tonight/tomorrow, but, if not, you have a much wider vista of the harbour from the lighthouse at the end of the walk past the outfalls in case it wanders (eg couldnt see it from the end of the narrow road yesterday)

No obvious sign of the 1st W Little Gull today

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Evening of14th Leighton Moss #6196

Where’s the main egret roost now please in the Leighton area?

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Pink-footed geese #6190

Add another 205 to above total over Midd NR whilst packing up 1100-1130

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Pink-footed geese #6189

966 plus two skeins heard only over Midd NR 0645-1100. Probably some missed as very high in following wind

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Pink-footed geese #6177

Flock of 30 south over the intertidal Heysham c0800 (per Malcolm)

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Bank End #6159

Lots of grey wags colour ringed this week please do keep an eye open and very important to get two right leg colours accurately recorded as well as the site ring and metal on left leg. Thanks

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Carnforth slag tips. July 23 2022 #5868

Hi
Were the rock pipits behaving territorially please? Have you seen them before this summer? Has anyone an update on the Barrow Scout/JBP pair please?

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Red Nab – Heysham Harbour #5743

38 Meds at 1315 including 8 1st summer/2cy as the tide was starting to cover Red nab. About half the number of bhg and Meds cp the other day when 63 Meds and suspect some of the Red nab roosting Meds may already have left for the lune estuary before I arrived

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Conder Green/Lancaster Canal #5667

Thanks Luke

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Bloe Greet / Cross of Greet / Croasdale Sat 4 June #5654

Can you tetrad your breeding records please. Obviously bridge of greet woods are out of the area so just the SD65T,Y,T,Z stuff and any in 66 thanks. We’re you not approached by raptor watch staff/volunteers?

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Conder Green/Lancaster Canal #5649

Worth recording the white plume – nowhere near as common as used to be – if you give a grid ref I’ll stick it on mapmate ready for next sync with county records hub. Thanks

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Spoonbill #5611

That’s an odd record – must have been a really short stayer?

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Leck Fell and Cowan Bridge #5565

Re ‘not doing anything different’ mean no extra drainage? No supplementary feeding attracting gulls and crows? High speed stock round ups using quad bikes?

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Stone Jetty #5543

So it looks like none of the auks made it as far in as the jetty – I left at 0915 so obviously didn’t see them fly out before them. Skua timing in relation to tide typical – I was a bit late today

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Sea early am #5537

Rubbish this morning with apologies to 23 Gannet and 6 Razorbill, but it did see the start of the Sanderling spring passage with one on the seawatch and then four feeding on Heysham skeer at low tide

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Sea early am #5529

HeySham: Bit of a madhouse on the sea 0700-0720ish and a steady amount of stuff from 0630 until it dried up suddenly at about 0745. Ad LM Pom out at 0710 rapidly followed by an inbound very close dark Arctic at 0711. A heat haze set in about 0730 and what may have been the same Pom heading back in at 0740 at longer range couldn’t be clinched. Quite a few inbound Kittiwake this am. See posting later today on HeySham Obs site which will hopefully include some stuff from this evenings incomer. Need the forecasted cloud cover and increased wind to materialise.

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Sea early am #5523

Sea today in two sessions from heysham north wall included 5 Arctic Skua, yet another Puffin and something which was unfortunately just a bit too distant to clinch the identification as a putative so Slav Grebe. Size, Flight jizz, upperwing features spot on but could eg only see a ‘dark’ head and too far away to see the detail

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Sunday morning #5501

Bits in the earlier stages of the dropping tide including flock of 12 Arctic Tern towering over the harbour heading NE and a dark morph Arctic Skua similarly but high over HeySham Head…..along with two frustratingly distant auks which looked like Puffin but obviously not claiming such. Dead after 0650 as everything had presumably been flushed out of the bay by the dropping tide and nothing obvious inbound

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Puffin – Heysham North Harbour Wall #5476

Managed to get on this site just to say my phone is dead after trying to photograph the Puffin!!! So sorry if people trying to contact eg re-Atlas squares. Best to email [email protected] Thanks

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Leighton Moss & House Martins #3759

Agree – swallows are way down NE lancs more so than HM

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: LDBWS Field Meeting – Heysham Red Nab and outfalls Tuesday 10th August 9.15am #3758

Hi Rosie. Please change to 0915. Thanks.

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Stonechat – Heysham Village Bay #2403

Two more on the other side of the Head by the harbour lighthouse and on Ocean Edge

Ad (winter) med behind incoming Ben my Chree

[Pete Marsh]

in reply to: Caton Moor snow bunting #2392

And again today

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