Pied Flycatcher!

05.50-08.30 from the sea watch hide with AJG who kindly collated the numbers:

Brent Goose: 42 up

Shelduck: 5 down

Common Scoter: 143 up

Great-crested Grebe: 4 around

Fulmar: 2 up   1 down

Gannet: 23 up   2 down

Cormorant: present n/c

Grey Heron: 1 in

Oystercatcher: 1 up   2 down

Bar-tailed Godwit: 32 up 

Pomarine Skua: 1 up @07.58

Arctic Skua: 5 up

Mediterranean Gull: 6 up

Iceland Gull: 1 x 1w at The Patch

Kittiwake: 5 up  1 down

Sandwich Tern: 18 up

Commic Tern: 26 up

Guillemot: 1 up   1 on

Auk sp: 3 up

Swallow: 22 in

 Pied Flycather in a private garden

In a private garden a female Pied Flycatcher, Common Whitethroat, Garden Warbler, 4 Willow Warblers and a Chiffchaff. Many thanks to Dave and Sheila Bunney for sharing and allowing access.

 Willow Warbler in a private garden

My first Common Sandpiper of the year

On the reserve several Whimbrel by the access track. On Burrowes a Grey Plover, a Greenshank, a Common Sandpiper, 5 Dunlin, 3 Ringed Plovers, 2 Whimbrel, Ring-necked Duck and a pair of Pintail of note.

A Swift over the ARC was my first of the year but little else of note here. A Slavonian and Black-necked Grebe on the New Diggings looking stunning it their summer dress.

At the old lighthouse this afternoon 3+ Willow Warblers.

Pebble Hook-tip by the MV today