Friday 7th - Monday 10th July

A cool weekend 11 - 18C some sunshine with generally light winds

Monday 10th July

Marton Mere LNR - Green sandpiper, common tern, 11 tree sparrow

Starr Gate - 3 Grey seals, Arctic skua, 4 gannets

Sunday 9th July

Mossom Nature Field - 119 Meadow browns, 78 small skippers, 10 large skippers, 4 small tortoiseshells, 3 commas, 2 green veined white butterflies, 3 silver Y moths, brown hawker dragonfly

Warbreck Hill - 4 Swifts, swallow (N)

Stanley Park - Common sandpiper, great crested grebe

Devonshire Road Rock Gardens - White letter hairstreak, 3 comma butterflies, brown hawker dragonfly, blackcap

Marton Mere LNR - Bittern, 3 common terns, 3 grey wagtails, grasshopper warbler, 8 teal, 3 kestrels, sparrowhawk, 5 tree sparrows

Beechfield Avenue - Peregrine (over)

Stanley Park - Coal tit

Salisbury Woodland Gardens - Nuthatch

Warbreck Hill/Regency Gardens - Goldcrest

Saturday 8th July

Stanley Park - 2 Great crested grebes, great spotted woodpecker

Heron's Reach Golf Course - adult + 3 juvenile Little grebes, reed warbler

Salisbury Woodland Gardens - Grey wagtail

Marton Mere LNR - 2 Teal, buzzard, kestrel, grasshopper warbler, 10 swifts, 2 curlews (over)

Lawson's Wetland - Grasshopper warbler

Warbreck Hill - Coal tit

Friday 7th July

Starr Gate - 19 Shelducks, 820 common scoters, 2 Manx shearwaters, 20 gannets, 23 Sandwich terns, 2 guillemots

Marton Mere LNR - Common tern, 2 kestrels, sparrowhawk

White letter hairstreak at Devonshire Road Rock Gardens

Please send your Blackpool wildlife photos to solaris.centre@blackpool.gov.uk

EVENTS - National Whale and Dolphin Watch - Saturday 29th July - Sunday 6th August See here for local details - FREE

North Blackpool Pond Trail - Big Butterfly Count - Saturday 29th July 1pm - 3pm meet at the Kincraig Lake bird viewing area - FREE 

Marton Mere LNR - Moth & Bat night - Saturday 5th August 8.30pm - 11.30pm meet at the old cabin at the west end of the nature reserve - FREE

The North Blackpool Pond Trail have a Facebook group page

There is a Facebook group for all things Marton Mere LNR including news of events and volunteer projects

https://www.facebook.com/martonmerereserve

There is also a page specifically for wildlife news at Marton Mere https://www.facebook.com/groups/343548299164728/ please Like, Share and post your sightings and wildlife photos from the nature reserve

Follow Marton Mere LNR on twitter @MartonMereLNR