Monday 30 June 2014

Monday 30th June and weeknd round-up

Sunny cool early morning 8 - 18C, light NNE breeze

Monday 30th June

Norbreck - harbour porpoise, 2 grey seals 

North Shore - Grey seal (possibly same as one of above) 

Town Centre - Grey wagtail

Red Bank Road/Sainsburys - Kestrel (over)

Solaris Centre - Hummingbird hawkmoth (laying eggs on the cleavers aka goosegrass), red admiral, large skipper, comma, 2+ leaf cutter bees (likely to be Megachile willughbiella or M. centuncularis neither have been recorded in Blackpool before), 2 campion moth caterpillars (in the seedheads of the red campion)  

Sunday 29th June

North Shore - 2 Grey seals, 100 common scoters, 16 Sandwich terns, 2 lesser weaverfish, several meadow browns, red admiral

Devonshire Road Rock Gardens - Whitethroat (male singing), red admiral, 20+ large skippers, 20+ meadow browns, 5+ speckled woods, 5+ small skippers, many meadow grasshoppersmany iris sawfly caterpillars

Marton Mere LNR - adult + 2 juv great crested grebes, shoveler, barn owl, 12 long tailed tits, great spotted woodpecker

Warbreck Hill - moths: poplar grey, 2 marbled beauties, 13 heart & darts, 5 darrk arches, large yellow underwing, middle barred minor, others: 2 ruby tailed wasps, Ectemnius solitary wasp (ppreying on hoverflies), tree bees, speckled wood, large white, blue tailed damselfly, Sitticus pubescens (a jumping spider)

Saturday 28th June

North Shore - Grey seal 

Whitegate Drive - Fox 

Marton Mere LNR - 8 Song thrushes, lesser whitethroat

Starr Gate - Grey seal, 8 swifts

North Blackpool Pond Trail/kincraig Lake - Great spotted woodpecker, chiffchaff