Heysham Harbour

Picked up Frank for a day at Leighton Moss, but we decided to drop into Heysham as neither of us had been there before.
It was blowing a gale straight off the sea as we walked round past Red Nab to the outflows were we had Kittiwake and Little Gull showing well.
Then, on to the harbour itself looking for the Glaucous Gull that had been reported. We didn't see that but had Shag on the wooden jetty and plenty of Turnstone and Redshank on the rocks below.
As we walked back Frank picked up Purple Sandpiper with the Turnstones and I got Med Gull on the second outflow with Blacked Headed Gulls, white wings, tail and vivid red beak.
There were hundreds of waders being pushed in by the tide, Oystercatcher, Curlew, Turnstone, Sanderling and Dunlin.
A party of three Red Breasted Merganser took off from the sea, were we could see flocks of Wigeon patrolling near the rocks.
Back at Red Nab, we picked up a Merlin which took off, spooking the waders, we watched it fly out to sea, which was strange, but maybe it was checking out the jetties.
No pipits or Twite, which we'd hoped for, but certainly a site to revisit in the future.