The
eclipse male Garganey was still
present on Harwood Dale Lake this morning along with 20+ Mandarins and about 10
Teal, also on the small flash west of the main lake there was a Wood Sandpiper which is the first
record for the area this year.
At
Long Nab today the highlights included 17 Common Scoter (2 S, 15 N) , 4 Manx
Shearwaters (2 S, 2 N), 34 Oystercatchers (S), a Curlew (S), 14 Redshanks (S),
a Sanderling (S), 3 Dunlin (S), 5 Common Gulls (S), 149 Sandwich Terns (42 S,
107 N), 26 Swift (S), 93 Sand Martin (S) and 34 Swallows (S).
Also
today we had a Green Sandpiper and 2 Little Grebes on Johnson’s Marsh; 4 adult
Mediterranean Gulls at Holbeck car park; in Jackson’s Bay this evening 3
Sanderling, 3 Dunlin and a Ringed Plover all on the beach and flying south a
Whimbrel and a Greenshank; and at Broad Grain Head, Langdale a very recently
fledged Cuckoo with Meadow Pipit ‘parents’ and a family group of Crossbills.
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