Hot and sunny again 14 - 28C light but increading offshore breeze
19th July - 10th August is the Big Butterfly Count
26th July - 3rd August is National Whale and Dolphin Watch.
See http://www.seawatchfoundation.org.uk/nwdw-2014-watch-list/ click on 27. Cheshire/Lancashire for details of Blackpool watches
Solaris Centre - Butterflies: Common blue, meadow brown, large white, small white; 2 leaf cutter bees (of unknown species)ladies bedstraw (new in sandy grassland here as a result of less frequent mowing) apparently it deters fleas and was the original colouring for Double Gloucester cheese
New South Promenade - Salmon (large 3-4ft leapt out of the water), redshank (1st one back on our stretch of the beach), juv Mediterranean gull, 2 gannets, house martin (1st here this year!), 10-spot ladybird, peacock butterfly, common blue butterfly, meadow brown butterfly
Lawson's wetland - Buzzard
Marton - 11 Swifts, holly blue butterfly
Heron's Reach - Purple loosestrife (excellent display at rear of zoo)
Heron's Reach golf course - Little grebe (calling), female Gadwall + 4 well grown juvs
North Shore - 3 Manx shearwaters, shelduck, 5 Sandwich terns
Warbreck Hill - 2 Pipistrelle bats
Stanley Park Lake - Purple loosestrife (excellent display on the floating wildflower rafts)
