Hodbarrow: Usual common and sandwich terns, no little terns have nested this year unfortunately. Lots of ringed plover, oystercatchers, rb mergs, etc, a dozen gannets fishing off-shore. 3 dark morph Arctic skuas. One gave great views, chasing terns and eventually landing on the inland pool to preen and bathe.
Foulney: Arctic and little terns nesting, also two common and four sandwich terns. Several hundred moulting male eiders. 3 sanderling, half a dozen dunlin, a dozen turnstone. 1 stonking pale morph Arctic skua that followed the terns in off the sea.
Warton Crag: Two eyass peregrines almost fully fledged - they're moving along the cliff face around the nest.
Eric Morcambe complex, Leighton Moss: 2 marsh harriers, lesser whitethroat behind EM hide. 2 greenshank, 1 spotted redshank, 2 knot, c400 black-tailed godwits, plus usual waders. 6 little gulls 48 teal Adult male peregrine flew through.
Sunderland Point: 2 whimbrel (one or two birds have summered here for the last few years) 2 Arctic terns 10 eiders
Finally, just as I was about to set off for home, I noticed a large white bird having a bit of a scrap with a heron. Turned out to be a spoonbill - probably the one seen at Leighton Moss recently?
