27/12/2021

A thoroughly miserable last few days, with more or less constant rain and drizzle

08.00-10.30 from the hide this morning, SE 4-5 with Rain and chilly.

Brent Goose: 1E

Teal: 54W

Common Scoter: 7W   1E

Red-throated Diver: 560W      65E

Great-crested Grebe: 8W  3E    4 on

Fulmar: 2W    2E

Gannet: 342E      64W

Cormorant: c2,500E into Lade Bay

Oystercatcher: 7E

Sanderling: 2E

Kittiwake: 136W       44E

Black-headed Gull: present n/c

Mediterranean Gull: 5E

Common Gull: present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c

Great Skua: 2E

Guillemot: 669E     203W

Razorbill: 227E     102W

Auk sp: 1,480E     539W

Grey Seal: 1

The 6 Cattle Egrets are still feeding in the Horse Paddocks along with a few Little Egrets, Late this morning some Greylag and Canada geese flew in to feed in the fields in front my house, bringing with them up to 27 Russian White-fronted Geese and 3 Brent Geese that I don't often see there. Late afternoon from Dennis's Hide the 2 Glossy Ibis flew in and eventually settled in front of the Firth thing, 4+ Goldeneye were on Burrowes with a few Pintail but little else apart from the hordes of Cormorants. 

5 Red-breasted Mergansers at Scotney viewed from the double bend yesterday, I don't remember seeing a Merganser there before, certainly not 5.