Red Kite getting the Herring Gull treatment over the fish hut late this afternoon

05.30-08.30 from the sea watch hide AJG, RW et al. Many thanks to AJG for supplying me with this mornings numbers as I was indisposed.
Common Scoter: 67E
Red-throated Diver: 2E
Great-crested Grebe: 14 around
Fulmar: 8W
Manx Shearwater: 8W
Gannet: 220W

Oystercatcher: 2E
Great Skua: 1E
Pomarine Skua: 1E
Arctic Skua: 4E
Hobby: 2 in
Peregrine: 1 on beach
Kittiwake: 10W
Sandwich Tern: 290E
Common/Arctic Tern: 56E also c300 at The Patch
Guillemot: 1W

A lunchtime walk around Scotney found of note 76 Bar-tailed Godwits, 14 Whimbrel, 4 Ringed Plovers, 3 Avocets and 6 Wheatears on the Sward. At the back of the lake 12 Yellow Wagtails, 6 Corn Buntings, another 8 Wheatears, a Little Owl, a Hobby, 20 Avocets and another 4 Whimbrel.
OL relocated the Large Tortoiseshell at the Long Pits early afternoon but it had disappeared by the time I arrived. Another Spoonbill overflew the reserve but it was generally quiet today.

1of the dozens of Wheatears that were around the peninsular today

Little Tern at the fishing boats this afternoon

13.40-17.00 from the fishing boats with AJG, RW, JTM et al.
Common Scoter: 7E
Slavonian Grebe: 1 drifted East
Great-crested Grebe: 13 around
Red-throated Diver: 5E
Manx Shearwater: 2W
Gannet: 36E  358W
Red Kite: 1 over the fish hut drifted inland
Great Skua: 8E
Arctic Skua: 8E
Kittiwake: 16W
Sandwich Tern: 27W
Common/Arctic Tern: c50 feeding off shore
Little Tern: 4 feeding
Guillemot: 36W    1E
Swallow: 11 in
Wheatear: 10+ behind fishing boats

Little Terns off the fishing boats this afternoon