Coues Arctic Redpoll

From The Point this morning with AJG and DW 07.00 - 11.00 all west unless stated:

Great Northern Diver: 1 on sea

Red-throated Diver: 12

Balearic Shearwater: 1

Gannet: 66

Brent Goose: 79

Red-breasted Merganser: 5

Common Scoter: 580

Velvet Scoter: 2

Merlin: 1 hunting off shore

Peregrine: hunting over beach

Great Skua: 9

Sandwich Tern: 8

Little Gull: 17

Kittiwake: 34

Mediterranean Gull: 1 o/s

Razorbill: 1

Auk sp: 18

On new Diggings a Great White Egret could be seen from the causeway.

I had just had lunch and was just about to go back to the beach when I received a call from DW to say that some interesting Redpolls had been trapped at the observatory.

There was several Lesser Redpolls, 2 Meally Redpolls and the Coues Arctic Redpoll.  

Coues Arctic Redpoll

                                                         Coues Arctic Redpoll

                                                            Coues Arctic Redpoll

                                                              Coues Arctic Redpoll

                                     Coues Arctic Redpoll (Single thin black shaft on the undertail coverts)

                                                            Coues Arctic Redpoll

                                                          Coues Arctic Redpoll

                    Meally Redpoll left                             Coues Arctic Redpoll right

                     Meally Redpoll left                             Coues Arctic Redpoll right

                        Meally Redpoll left                             Coues Arctic Redpoll right

                                       Meally Redpoll left                             Coues Arctic Redpoll right

                                                         Meally Redpoll

                                                             Lesser Redpoll
Elsewhere around the peninsular 4 Great White Egrets and a Black-necked Grebe on Burrowes also 2 Bitterns and the usual Marsh Harriers but little else of note.