Thursday 4 September 2014

Wednesday 3rd September

Warm but overcast 11 - 22C hottest Sept 3rd since at least 1996. Light NW wind

Starr Gate - flock of 90 Sandwich and common terns roosting on the beach with several more fishing at sea

Marton Mere LNR - 200 swallows, 1000 starlings, water rail, Cetti's warbler, 3 willow warbler/chiffchaffs, great spotted woodpecker, several migrant hawker dragonflies

North Shore - 5000 Common scoters, 2 red throated divers, grey plover (S), 4 shelducks (S), 20 turnstones

Various locations - Flying ants


  Email your Blackpool wildlife sightings and photographs to sammyandsally @ blackpool.gov.uk (without the spaces)