Monday 30th June and weeknd round-up

Sunny cool early morning 8 - 18C, light NNE breeze

Monday 30th June

Norbreck - harbour porpoise, 2 grey seals 

North Shore - Grey seal (possibly same as one of above) 

Town Centre - Grey wagtail

Red Bank Road/Sainsburys - Kestrel (over)

Solaris Centre - Hummingbird hawkmoth (laying eggs on the cleavers aka goosegrass), red admiral, large skipper, comma, 2+ leaf cutter bees (likely to be Megachile willughbiella or M. centuncularis neither have been recorded in Blackpool before), 2 campion moth caterpillars (in the seedheads of the red campion)  

Sunday 29th June

North Shore - 2 Grey seals, 100 common scoters, 16 Sandwich terns, 2 lesser weaverfish, several meadow browns, red admiral

Devonshire Road Rock Gardens - Whitethroat (male singing), red admiral, 20+ large skippers, 20+ meadow browns, 5+ speckled woods, 5+ small skippers, many meadow grasshoppersmany iris sawfly caterpillars

Marton Mere LNR - adult + 2 juv great crested grebes, shoveler, barn owl, 12 long tailed tits, great spotted woodpecker

Warbreck Hill - moths: poplar grey, 2 marbled beauties, 13 heart & darts, 5 darrk arches, large yellow underwing, middle barred minor, others: 2 ruby tailed wasps, Ectemnius solitary wasp (ppreying on hoverflies), tree bees, speckled wood, large white, blue tailed damselfly, Sitticus pubescens (a jumping spider)

Saturday 28th June

North Shore - Grey seal 

Whitegate Drive - Fox 

Marton Mere LNR - 8 Song thrushes, lesser whitethroat

Starr Gate - Grey seal, 8 swifts

North Blackpool Pond Trail/kincraig Lake - Great spotted woodpecker, chiffchaff

Friday 27th June

Cooler than of late 12 - 16C, overcast, rain in afternoon, brisk E breeze

Starr Gate - 450 Common scoters, pergrine, 8 gannets, 6 common terns 

Watson Road - 80 - 100 Swifts

Marton Mere LNR - True bug Grypocorus stysi (no Lancashire records on the National Biodiversity Network), several meadow browns, small tortoiseshell, speckled wood, brown hawker, Cetti's warbler

North Shore - 2 Harbour porpoises, 3 grey seals

Zoo - Devil's coach horse beetle

Please report any sightings of wildlife in Blackpool to sammyandsally @ blackpool.gov.uk (without the spaces)
You can also send your Blackpool wildlife photos for inclusion in the BEAT SummerWatch Wildlife Exhibition at the Solaris Centre 

Thursday 26th June

Overcast, light E breeze, warmer than average for June 12 - 20C

Gynn/Warbreck Hill - Hedgehog

Zoo - 2 Red admirals, click beetle, marsh snipe fly (1st for Fylde), potato leafhopper (1st for Fylde)

Marsh snipe fly by Reece Slater

North Blackpool Pond Trail Kincraig Lake - Shelduck (very scarce here), mandarin, adult + 3 juv great crested grebes

Moor Park Health Centre - 15 Swifts

Town Centre - Grey wagtail

New South Promenade - 2 Grey seals

Wednesday 25th June

Mild 12 - 18C, cloudy, 5mph E breeze

This week is National Insect Week

15+ Bottle nosed dolphins working there way south over the lunchtime high tide, 3 grey seals, possible distant minke whale

For news of cetaceans off the Fylde coast and when watching events are happening join Blackpool Seawatchers on Facebook

Tuesday 24th June

North Shore - 5 Gannets

Town Centre - Grey wagtail

New South Promenade - 3 Idotea balthica, rockling sp, many sand gobies, 2 juvenile blennies, several tiny fish fry of unknown species, many brown shrimps, many green sore crabs, large (old) native oyster shell

Monday 23rd June

Sunny and warm 10 - 18C, hazy light cloud, 15mph NW breeze

This week is National Insect Week

St John Vianney School - Hedgehog (1st live one reported in town this year only a few dead ones seen on roads too, please report them)

New South Promenade - Grey seal
Email your Blackpool wildlife sightings and photographs to sammyandsally @ blackpool.gov.uk (without the spaces)

20th - 22nd June Weekend round-up

A warm weekend with day and night temperatures above the long term average. Generally sunny with light to moderate winds.

Friday 20th June

Marton Mere LNR - 2 grasshopper warblers, 2 Cetti's warblers

Saturday 21st June

Grange Park - Lime hawkmoth (in a kitchen!) 

Warbreck Hill - Ruby tailed wasp, 2-spot ladybird (seem to be very scarce this year - have you seen any?)

You can record your sightings of ladybirds using your phone - details of the app http://www.ladybird-survey.org/recording.aspx


Starr Gate - 150 common scoters, 8 gannets, 7 shelducks, 5 Manx shearwaters, 2 eiders

Sunday 22nd June

Marton Mere LNR - 1 adult + 2 juv great crested grebes, 2 pochards, great spotted woodpecker