Saturday 19 August 2017

Leach's Petrel!

 Great White Egret over my house first thing this morning
 Reed Warbler
 Willow Warbler
 Lesser Whitethroat
At the ARC the bushes by the track to the tower were alive with warblers, Reed Warbler, Willow Warbler and Whitethroat were in the majority with smaller numbers of Lesser Whitethroat, Blackcap and Sedge Warbler, Sand Martins and Swallows were much in evidence over the lakes. From Hanson a Garganey showed well, also there 3 Dunlin, a Little Ringed Plover, another Great White Egret and the usual wildfowl. Also a Clouded Yellow butterfly by the car park.
 Garganey
 Clouded Yellow
 Turnstone at the fishing boats
13.45-16.45 from the fishing boats joined by AJG, SO & PT.
Common Scoter: 3 up
Eider: 1 female around
Great-crested Grebe: 5 around
Fulmar Petrel: 2 up  1 down
Leach’s Petrel: 1 down (to far out for any images but gave good scope views)
Gannet: 59 up
Cormorant: 17 around
Turnstone: 6 around
Arctic Skua: 5+ around
Yellow-legged Gull: 1 juvenile around
Kittiwake: 25 down
Sandwich tern: 186 down
Common Tern: 61 down
Sand Martin: 12 out
Swift: 15 out
Wheatear: 2 on beach
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 8+
 Eider at the fishing boats

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