Monday 5 August 2013

Black Terns

 07.35-12.10 from the fishing boats:
Balearic Shearwater 2W
Fulmar:  5W
Gannet: 182W
G C Grebe: 5W + 6 on sea
Common Scoter: 363W
Tufted Duck: 1W
Teal: 8W
Curlew: 1W
Whimbrel: 2 W
Sanderling: 15W
Ringed Plover: 2W
Turnstone: 4 on beach
Little Gull: 2 around
Kittiwake: 4W
Mediterranean Gull: 6 around
Y.L.Gull: 1 juv.W
Bonxie: 3W
Black Tern: 89W
Common Tern: 642W
Sandwich Tern: 55W
Swift: 34 out
Swallow: 2 out
Sand Martin: 256 out

Another watch from 14.45-17.00 was very slow:
Gannet: 64W
Common Scoter: 163W
Kittiwake: 4 W
Mediterranean Gull: 2W
Y.L.Gull 1 adult on the boats
Bonxie: 1W
Sand Martin: 157 out

2 visits to the ARC at lunch time and again this evening found of note, 1 Greenshank, 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpipers, 2 Common Sandpipers, 6 Little Ringed Plovers, 1 Ringed Plover, 2 Redshank and the Black necked Grebe. As shower came in this evening c150 Sand martins appeared over the lake.


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