18/01/2022

As I drove along the causeway this morning I passed OL who was staring across the ARC intently, moments later he called me to say that there were 2 Slavonian Grebes there. After I had seen them we made our to the sea watch hide. The 5 mile list moves onto 122.

 09.15-10.15 from the the hide with OL

Brent Goose: 12E

Shoveler: 1E

Wigeon: 27E      3W

Teal: 2W

Red-throated Diver: 123E

Great-crested Grebe: 4 on

Fulmar: 1E

Gannet: 7E

Cormorant: 1,000s feeding just a few mts off shore

Kittiwake: 48E     20 around

Black-headed Gull: present n/c

Mediterranean Gull: 1E

Common Gull: present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c  single Argentatus on beach

Lesser Black-backed Gull: 2 on beach

Guillemot: 21E     50+ on

Razorbill: 6E     10+ on

Auk sp: 143

2nd calendar year Great Black-backed Gull J37EU ringed as a pullus in Southern Norway on 21/07/2021

1 of 4 Cattle Egrets at Cockles Bridge this morning

Common Buzzard feasting on a Fox carcas

2 of 5 Whooper Swans taken into the low afternoon sun at Baynham Farm

3 of 5 Bewick's Swans taken into the low afternoon sun at Baynham Farm

Mistle Thrush a Dungeness scarcity at Dennes Road this afternoon, there was still 36 Bewick Swans there.

Kestrel with its late lunch

Tree Sparrows from around the marsh

Great Black-backed Gull with a large Eel at Scotney Scotney today. At the back of Scotney but just visible from the double bends a flock of at least 36 White-fronted Geese.

There are at least 3 Green Sandpipers wintering around Scotney

5 of the 7 Cattle Egrets that roosted at the ARC along with the 2 Glossy Ibis