Thursday 30th July

Another cool day 12 - 16C mostly sunny with a cool moderate north westerly wind

Starr Gate - Common seal (a pup - probably in poor condition if seen alive on the beach do not approach, keep dogs away, call British Divers Marine Life Rescue 07787 433 412)

New South Promenade - several Common terns, 6 Sandwich terns

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

Wednesday 29th July

A better day but still slightly cooler than average for the end of July 11-17C mostly sunny with a brisk north westerly breeze

New South Promenade - 2 Grey seals, Arctic skua, 5 dunlins (S), 10 common terns, 10 Sandwich terns, 100 gannets

Solaris Centre - 2 Meadow brown butterflies

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

Tuesday 28th July

Another cool July day 11 - 16C sunny spells and rain with a moderate westerly wind

New South Promenade - 5 Sandwich terns, 10 common terns, 12 Manx shearwaters, 100 gannets

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

Weekend Round-up 25th - 27th July

A cold weekend for the end of July 8 - 16C some sunshine and some heavy rain with variable moderate winds

Monday 27th July

Warbreck Hill - Peregrine

South Pier - Yellow legged gull, a mystery isopod (now identified as Idotea linearis), 2 lion's mane jellyfish, honeycomb worm reefs, many brown shrimps, gammarid shrimps, speckled sea louse, several juvenile green shore crabs

Sunday 26th July

Gynn Square - 10 Gannets, 4 eiders (N)

Saturday 25th July

Lindsay Avenue park - 5 Swifts

Marton Mere LNR - 14 Tufted ducks

Devonshire Road Rock Gardens - 10+ White letter hairstreaks

New South Promenade - 2 Grey seals

Lion's mane jellyfish

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

So far this week

A cooler than average end to the week 9 - 17C mostly cloudy with some rain and moderate westerly winds

Friday 24th July

New South Promenade - 2 Harbour porpoises, 2 grey seals, 100 common scoters

Solaris Centre - Deptford pink still in flower, small tortoiseshell butterfly

Thursday 23rd July

Starr Gate - Grey seal

Whitegate Drive - 4 Swifts

Warbreck Hill - Pipistrelle bat (1st of year here - very late!)

Small tortoiseshell

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

Catch up from last week

A week of average July daytime temperatures but slightly warmer than average nights 11 - 22C sunny spells some rain at times with a stiff south west to westerly breeze

Tuesday 21st July

Marton Mere LNR - 4 Snipe

Monday 20th July

Moor Park health centre - 20 Meadow browns, 6 small skippers

Sunday 19th July

Devonshire Road Rock Gardens - butterflies: White letter hairstreak, 46 small skippers, 8 large skippers, 7 gatekeepers, 65 meadow browns, 2 large whites, 2 commas, speckled wood, silver Y moth, brown hawker dragonfly, many grasshoppers

Saturday 18th July

North Blackpool Pond Trail Kincraig Lake - Common sandpiper

Friday 17th July

Town Centre - Peregrine

Starr Gate - Arctic skua, 40 Manx shearwater, 2 tufted ducks

Thursday 16th July

Park Road - 2 Oystercatchers (over)

Warbreck Hill - 5 Swifts

St Walberga's Road - 12 Swifts

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

Wednesday 15th July

Another slightly cooler than average July day 12 - 16C mostly sunny with a fresh north westerly wind

North Blackpool Pond Trail Holyoake Avenue - Moor Park Avenue

Butterflies: 13 Large Skippers , 14 Small Skippers, 31 Meadow Browns, 2 Gatekeepers , 2 Large Whites, 2 Speckled Woods, Small Tortoiseshell

 Moths: 4 Latticed Heaths, 2 Silver Ys, Cinnabar, 4 Narrow Bordered 5-Spot Burnets

Odonata: Brown Hawker, 2 Emperors (m & f), 4 4-Spot Chasers, 4 Azure Damselflies, 3 Blue-tailed Damselflies

Ladybirds: 2 Spot, 14 Spot, 22 Spot, 24 Spot and Water

Soldier fly: 2 Broad centurion flies (Chloromyia formosa)

Hoverflies: Marmalade, Scaevi pyrasti, Eristalis pertinax, Tropida scita, Volucella bombylans (two forms)

Dance fly: 30+ Poecilobothrus nobilitatus

Conopid: Sicus ferruginea

Narrow bordered 5-spot burnet moths on creeping thistle

Please send your Blackpool wildlife news and any photos to sammyandsally @ blackpool.gov.uk (without the spaces)

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