Weekend 22nd - 24th April

Cool for the last week of April, 1 - 11C mostly sunny with a cool brisk easterly wind increasing and turning north westerly

Sunday 24th April

Stanley Park - Swift, ring necked parakeet, 20 swallows, 10 house martins, common sandpiper, treecreeper, sparrowhawk, grey wagtail

Marton Mere LNR - 2 Lesser whitethroat, 2 grasshopper warblers, swift, 15 swallows, 10 sand martins, kestrel, 8 stock doves, 5 Cetti's warblers, 4 lapwings, 2 whitethroats, 5 willow warblers, 7 chiffchaffs, 4 shelducks, common sandpiper

Heron's Reach - Kestrel, 3 blackcaps, 2 willow warblers, 2 chiffchaffs

De Vere Hotel entrance road - 2 Mistle thrushes, tawny mining bee

Lawson's Field - Song thrush, 2 whitethroats, 3 swallows, 2 house martins

Lawson's Wetland - Cetti's warbler

Saturday 23rd April

Stanley Park - Common sandpiper, house martin, 7 swallows

Marton Mere LNR - Weasel, Jay, 2 green sandpipers, 2 common sandpipers, lesser whitethroat, 5 shelduck, snipe, 2 buzzards, sparrowhawk, kestrel, house martin

Lawson's Field - Lesser whitethroat, whitethroat

Lawson's Wetland - 3 Swallows

Friday 22nd April

Cherry Tree allotments - Moorhen (with chicks), kestrel, buzzard, 2 newts (probably smooth newts)

Marton Mere LNR - Weasel, short tailed field vole, 8 Cetti's warblers, 2 wheatears, whitethroat, lesser whitethroat, 2 grasshopper warblers, sedge warbler, 4 reed warblers, 2 linnets, 3 buzzards, kestrel, frog

Lawson's Wetland - Whinchat, wheatear, whitethroat, Cetti's warbler

Lawson's Field - Whitethroat

Heron's Reach golf couse - Blackcap, whitethroat, swallows (back at nest in shed)

Heron's Reach/Staining Nook - Cetti's warbler

Stanley Park - 2 Common sandpipers, 2 willow warblers, 3 chiffchaffs, 2 mistle thrushes, 2 blackcaps, great spotted woodpecker

Mute Swan at Kincraig Lake by Rachel Kavanagh

Family Wildlife Event - Spot Super Life in the Water at Ashfield Road pond on the North Blackpool Pond Trail FY2 0HB Monday 2nd May 11am - 12.30. Join the team to find what is lurking in the pond, get to know the creatures and their lifestyles - Free but a donation to the Friends of North Blackpool Pond Trail would be welcome.

Wildlife recording walk - Meet at the gate on Lawson's Road opposite Lancaster Road Tuesday 3rd May 1pm - 3pm for a wander round the reserve with the Friends of Marton Mere. Come along to learn what species we have and how to identify them - from birds to butterflies, orchids to dragonflies. Free but a donation to the Friends of Marton Mere would be welcome.

Local wildlife photographer Barry Dean is holding an exhibition of his wildlife photos at the Solaris Centre during April

Please email your sightings and wildlife photos to solaris.centre @ blackpool.gov.uk - without the spaces

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