Tuesday 11 August 2015

Not a bad Day!

3 sea watches today saw a steady trickle of birds moving west mainly Common Terns. Thanks to AJG for collating the numbers.
Teal: 3W
Common Scoter: 13W
Great-crested Grebe: 4 around
Manx Shearwater: 1W
Balearic Shearwater: 3W
Gannet:  209W
Oystercatcher: 4E
Turnstone: 1 on beach
Mediterranean Gull: 1W  juvenile/1w
Yellow-legged Gull: 1 juvenile around
Kittiwake: 12W
Little Tern: 2W
Sandwich Tern: 16W
Common Tern: c1550W
Arctic Tern: 3W
Black Tern: 24W
Swallow: 1 in
Wheatears: 2  behind the beach
On the ARC from Hanson, 1 Wood, 2 Green, 1 Common and  1 Curlew Sandpiper, 5 LRPs, 2 Common Snipe, c100 Lapwings, a juvenile Black Tern and the usual wildfowl. From the causeway the 2 Red-crested Pochards and a Black-necked Grebe. 
 A walk around the the southern part of the trapping area was fairly quiet, 10 each of Willow Warblers and Common Whitethroat, a Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Sparrowhawks and Green Woodpecker, the Peregrines were still active around the power station.
 First Jersey Tiger of the year in the Plodland trap
Scarce Chocholate-tip a Dungeness speciality and a first for the Plodland trap
Pine Hawkmoth also in this mornings catch

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