Thursday, 25th February 2016

Offshore 

1 Teal east, 1 fem/imm Long-tailed Duck east, 19 Common Scoters west, 12 Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Red-throated Divers west, 2 Great Crested Grebes east and 2 Auk sp. east.

Visible Migration

4 Grey Wagtails north-east, 3 Alba Wagtails north-east and 2 Siskins east.

Others 

140 Wigeons, 4 Goldeneyes, 1 Little Egret, 1 Peregrine, 2 Water Rails, 55 Golden Plovers, 400 Lapwings, 400 Dunlins, 2 Jack Snipes, 17 Snipe, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, 1 Barn Owl, 1 Short-eared Owl, 1 Cetti's Warbler and 1 Stonechat.

 

 This female Peregrine has been wintering at the Obs and she is fitted with a

red darvic ring. She was ringed in the nest, with a male sibling, at a quarry 

site in East Lancashire on 12th May 2014. 

Goldeneye