Thursday 13th - Sunday 16th August

Cooler than average nights and about average days 8 - 23C, mostly sunny with heavy rain on 14th, moderate winds from all directions but calmer on 16th.

Sunday 16th August

Town Centre - Peregrine

Solaris Centre - Green sandpiper (heard over), common darter dragonfly nymph, tachinid fly (1st record here), Deptford pink (still in flower)

Warbreck Hill - Willow beauty moth

Whitegate Drive - 2 Sparrowhawks

Marton Mere LNR - 2 Green sandpipers, 6 stock doves, water rail, 12 long tailed tits, shoveler, gadwall, great spotted woodpecker, sparrowhawk, 2 Cetti's warblers

Saturday 15th August

Warbreck Hill - moths: Light arches, six striped rustic

Marton Mere LNR - 3 Green sandpipers, curlew (over), water rail, 29 tufted ducks, 6 stock doves, 15 linnets

Stanley Park - Common blue butterfly

Friday 14th August

North Pier - 7 Barrel jellyfish (harmless)

Marton Mere LNR - 4 Gadwall, 5 shovelers, 29 tufted ducks, 6 stock doves

Thursday 13th August

Starr Gate - 309 Sandwich terns, 11 common terns, Arctic terns, 24 kittiwakes (N), 94 sanderlings (S), 3 great crested grebes

Kingscote Park - Hetrotoma planicornis (a true bug - 4th Blackpool record - no other records in north Lancashire!), many common froghoppers, brown hawker dragonfly, butterflies: holly blue, 3 speckled woods, several white sp, meadow brown, cinnabar moth caterpillars, many wolf spiders,

Tachinid fly - note the spines at the rear of the abdomen

Please send your Blackpool wildlife news and any photos to solaris.centre @ blackpool.gov.uk (without the spaces) NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS

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

Volunteer Days at Marton Mere LNR are now every Tuesday 10am - 3pm - All welcome. Wear suitable footwear and bring your lunch.
There may also be some volunteering opportunities suitable for school/works/community groups etc. Contact Annie on 07469 038520 or annie.heslop @ blackpool.gov.uk (without the spaces) for full details of projects, dates and times.

Blackpool Conservation Team are also on Twitter @BlackpoolCT for you to follow and join in their excellent work