6-8 Small blue this afternoon on the south side of Greatham Creek, Green Longhorn too.

Brimstone along Zinc Works Road just now

Yellow wagtail on Seaton Common from North Gare Road- brown cow with large horns

Male Wheatear in Jewish Cemetery at Hartlepool-getting chased about a bit though.

Stunning male Merlin currently hunting over the brine fields

Slavonian grebe on sea off Newburn

Juv Glaucous gull on pier rocks at Hartlepool just now

Great crested grebe numbers on the rise in the Tees Bay -112 today from North Gare along with the Velvet scoter still and a few Mergs.

1cy Caspian gull again at Haverton Hill roost along with the look-alike/ hybrid or whatever it is, this afternoon. Lovely male Merlin on Back Saltholme and 2 Ruff on Port Clarence flood

Spotted fly in bushes from ZWR - first lay-by from main road

Black tern currently off shore from Hartlepool Headland

4 Pale bellied Brent geese in the river mouth/ Seaton Channel visible from Seaton Snook

Juvenile Caspian Gull on the sea off Newburn this morning. Garganey on Back Saltholme before the rain this afternoon but little else different around the North Tees Marshes. 3 Roseate terns and 22 Little Gulls off Hartlepool Headland this morning.

……should add stilll!

A nice fresh juv Little Stint is on Saltholme west.

Common sea urchin washed up on Seaton Snook this morning- never seen one on Teesside before.

Whinchat with 3 young Stonechat in ZWB north side

Adult Sabines gull just gone N at Hartlepool Headland close inshore

While emptying the moth trap this morning had some good garden birds too. Short-eared Owl flew past mobbed by Herring Gulls and 13 Crossbills went south.

2 Roseate terms (ad, juv) off the end of the crumbling North Gare along with RTD and 4 Arctic Skuas

Lovely Rosy Footman in the trap this morning down in Canterbury

A few things in the Old Cemetery scrub this morning- whitethroat, wheatear, grasshopper warbler blackcaps and a couple of willow warblers. 70 scoter off Parton Rocks and 14 Purple sands

Greenshank on the wet marsh between Salterns and Tank Farm, SE owl on Cowpen still.

Long tailed duck on river Tees near football stadium-just flown in to the dock from red buoy 32

This large gull on the Hartlepool rocks yesterday appears to be a’Viking’ aka Glauc x Herring hybrid

At least there is some benefit to a snowy day -on the feeders this am. I haven’t seen it in the garden since November

A fairly quiet sea watch at Hartlepool this morning enlivened by a close in Little Auk north with supporting cast of Gannet, RB Mergs and a few large auks. Common and Green Sands on Billingham Beck.

Slavonian grebe on Seal Sands off creek mouth

4Egyptian geese on A1185 flash, Spoonbill and GWE on Saltholme the only things of note I could find today