Friday 14th to Monday 17th July

About average for mid July 14 - 20C Some lengthy sunny spells and heavy rain on Saturday morning

Monday 17th July

Stadium Avenue - 2 Hedgehogs

Heron's Reach golf course - Little grebe

Marton Mere LNR - Bittern, shoveler, 2 kestrels, 5 tree sparrows, 7 swifts

Sunday 16th July

Warbreck Hill - Ectemnius wasp

Mossom Nature Field - 20 Small skipper butterflies, many black tipped soldier beetles

Marton Mere LNR - Stoat, 5 teal, Cetti's warbler, common sandpiper

Heron's Reach golf course - 4 Little grebes

Saturday 15th July

Regency Gardens - Fox

Town Centre - 2 Peregrines

Stanley Park - Treecreeper, 2 great crested grebes

Marton Mere LNR - Common tern, 2 buzzards, kestrel, 2 lapwings, 5 tree sparrows

Friday 14th July

Starr Gate - Arctic skua, 160 common scoters, 20 Manx shearwaters  (N)

Marton Mere LNR - Bittern, common sandpiper, common tern

Stanley Park - Kestrel (very unusual here)

Town Centre - 2 Peregrines

Micro-moth Lozotaeniodes formosana at the Zoo bioblitz (a species currently in the process of colonising north Lancashire)

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