With a light south easterly blowing first thing this morning, our sea watch was a vast improvement than of late.
06.30-10.00 with AJG who collated the numbers:
Brent Goose: 375 E
Teal: 19 E
Shoveller: 31 E
Pintail: 2 E
Long-tailed Duck: 1 E
Common Scoter: 1027 E
Red-breasted Merganser: 5 E
Red-throated Diver: 1 E
Great-crested Grebe: c20 o/s
Fulmar: 11 around
Gannet: 24 W
Shag: 1 on sea
Turnstone: 1 on beach
Oystercatcher: 3 E
Sandwich Tern: c12 around
Razorbill: 1 on sea
Auk sp: 3 W
Harbour Porpoise: 3+
Around the peninsular there appears to have been a small arrival of migrants this morning with 20+ Firecrest, 50+ Chiffchaff, 10+ Black Redstarts, a few Meadow Pipits, Wheatears, Swallows and Sedge Warbler and 1+ Ring Ouzel.
Common Seal off Galloways.
Late afternoon the drake Garganey was in the Dengemarsh Sewer. On Hayfield 3, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Ringed Plovers, 6 Dunlin, 4 Redshank, a Snipe, a Little Egret and an Egyptian goose. Around Dengemarsh the 2 Tundra Bean Geese, 2 Great White Egrets and 3+ Marsh Harriers. The 2 Cattle Egrets were still around Brickwall Farm.
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