Tuesday 2 April 2019

First Manx of the year!

Common Crane on Boulderwall Fields
Most of the day was spent at the beach watching a steady up channel movement of sea birds.
06.30-15.00 from the sea watch hide with AJG & OL who helped with the numbers:
Greylag Goose: 2E
Brent Goose: 3,326E
Shelduck: 6E   1W
Common Scoter: 906E
Red-breasted Merganser: 13E
Red-throated Diver: 248E
Great-crested Grebe: 15 around
Fulmar: 11E
Manx Shearwater: 1E
Gannet: 610E
Cormorant: c20 around
Golden Plover: 4 in
Oystercatcher: 1E
Sanderling: 1E
Great Skua: 5E
Arctic Skua: 5E
Little Gull: 10E
Mediterranean Gull: 3E
Kittiwake: 68E
Sandwich Tern: 72E    27W
Common Tern: 6E
Guillemot: 61E
Auk sp: 7E
Swallow: 3 in
Meadow Pipit: 20 in
Harbour Porpoise: 4+
I did take time out from sea watching to have another look at the Common Crane that is on Boulderwall Fields, also the 3 Cattle Egrets, 2+Sedge Warblers and 2 Willow Warblers. There were a few Swallows and Sand Martins over the ARC. A Short-eared Owl came ashore at the fishing boats per DB.











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