Wheatear in the Desert
As I drove past the horse paddock this morning the 3 Cattle Egrets were there. Driving along the estate road 6 Canada Geese flew over and out to sea, the first I can recall seeing at The Point.A stiff NE breeze with fog limiting visibility to the bouy and the fog horns constantly sounding.
06.00-08.00 with AJG who did the counting:
Gannet: 97E
Mediterranean Gull:3 out
Sandwich Tern: 49E
Common Tern: 8E
Harbour Porpoise: 10+
A very meagre return for 2 hours in the cold.
1 of 6 Wheatears seen this morning
A wander around around The Moat, Lloyds, West Beach, the Lighthouse and the Desert confirmed my suspicions that there were very few migrants around, I encountered 5 Chiffchaffs, 2 Black Redstarts, 7 Wheatears 4 of which are probably resident, 7 Stonechats, 1 Swallow flew north, a few each of Meadow Pipit and Skylark and the resident Peregrines. The nicest thing though was 3 Brown Hares chasing each other over the shingle and through the Broome.
Several pairs of Stonechats were encountered
Arctic Skua at the fishing boats this afternoon
A slightly more productive sea watch this afternoon in worse visibility than this morning.
14.15-16.30 from the fishing boats with AJG & JTM,
Brent Goose: 2E
Common Scoter: 79E
Red-throated Diver: 2E
Great-crested Grebe: 10 on
Fulmar: 1W
Gannet: 181E 17W
Cormorant: 31 on
Arctic Skua: 4E
Common Gull: 23E
Kittiwake: 8E
Sandwich Tern: 33E 16W
Wheatear: 2 in
Harbour Porpoise: 20+
Arctic Skua at the fishing boats this afternoon
In attack mode!
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