A pretty uneventful 6 hour sea-watch, with Mr Thorpe (junior) joining in half way through (he just cannot bear to leave the Flashes for too long ) :
5 VERY DISTANT Manx Shearwaters (Rob picked these up just as they were heading round the Great Orme !), 20+ Gannets, 5+ Sandwich Terns, c10 Bar-tailed Godwits, 2 Knot, 10 Ringed Plovers, 15+ Dunlin, 2 drk Common Scoters, 3+ Eiders, 4 Curlew, 50+ Oystercatchers, (pr) Stonechat round the coastguard tower.
Ian Woosey said
Sun Apr 26 3:36 PM, 2009
Mike Baron wrote:
A few more spells north and you might get Lancastrian citizenship!
Mike, as it says in my Biography - "Born in Lancashire but had my identity stolen in 1974"
Mike Baron said
Sun Apr 26 3:27 PM, 2009
Ian Woosey wrote:
26/4/09
Spot of sea-watching with Jimmy Meadows :
2 f. Velvet Scoters were close in on the rising tide all morning, giving good views in flight and at rest, Red-throated Diver, Razorbill, 5+ Sandwich Tern, 4 Common Scoter, 4 Guillemot, Gannet, 20+Dunlin, 6 Ringed Plover, 5 Knot, Sanderling, Whimbrel, 4 Curlew, 3 Turnstone, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail on the golf course.
On the way home we called in at Mythop Flood, near Marton Mere :
-- Edited by Ian Woosey on Sunday 26th of April 2009 02:14:22 PM
Ian - have you emigrated?
I spent the morning seawatching from Heysham - Pete Marsh was hoping the Rossall Velvets would drift past but obviously nothing doing. I did get the usual stuff including the Black Guillemot and Purple Sand - also had the Wood Sandpiper at Mythop on the way home!
A few more spells north and you might get Lancastrian citizenship!
Mike
Ian Woosey said
Sun Apr 26 3:13 PM, 2009
26/4/09
Spot of sea-watching with Jimmy Meadows :
2 f. Velvet Scoters were close in on the rising tide all morning, giving good views in flight and at rest, Red-throated Diver, Razorbill, 5+ Sandwich Tern, 4 Common Scoter, 4 Guillemot, Gannet, 20+Dunlin, 6 Ringed Plover, 5 Knot, Sanderling, Whimbrel, 4 Curlew, 3 Turnstone, Peregrine, Yellow Wagtail on the golf course.
On the way home we called in at Mythop Flood, near Marton Mere :
A pretty uneventful 6 hour sea-watch, with Mr Thorpe (junior) joining in half way through (he just cannot bear to leave the Flashes for too long
5 VERY DISTANT Manx Shearwaters (Rob picked these up just as they were heading round the Great Orme !),
20+ Gannets,
5+ Sandwich Terns,
c10 Bar-tailed Godwits,
2 Knot,
10 Ringed Plovers,
15+ Dunlin,
2 drk Common Scoters,
3+ Eiders,
4 Curlew,
50+ Oystercatchers,
(pr) Stonechat round the coastguard tower.
Ian - have you emigrated?
I spent the morning seawatching from Heysham - Pete Marsh was hoping the Rossall Velvets would drift past but obviously nothing doing. I did get the usual stuff including the Black Guillemot and Purple Sand - also had the Wood Sandpiper at Mythop on the way home!
A few more spells north and you might get Lancastrian citizenship!
Mike
Spot of sea-watching with Jimmy Meadows :
2 f. Velvet Scoters were close in on the rising tide all morning, giving good views in flight and at rest,
Red-throated Diver,
Razorbill,
5+ Sandwich Tern,
4 Common Scoter,
4 Guillemot,
Gannet,
20+Dunlin,
6 Ringed Plover,
5 Knot,
Sanderling,
Whimbrel,
4 Curlew,
3 Turnstone,
Peregrine,
Yellow Wagtail on the golf course.
On the way home we called in at Mythop Flood, near Marton Mere :
Wood Sandpiper,
4 Black-tailed Godwit,
6 Wheatear,
Little Owl,
16 Shelduck.
Beltin day out !
-- Edited by Ian Woosey on Sunday 26th of April 2009 02:14:22 PM