Wednesday 17 April 2024

17/04/2024

Greenshank on the only un-submerged bit of island on the ARC. If only there were more islands.
The theme continues😡
06.20-08.20 with RW  from the sea watch hide.  Wind NW 3-4 Temp 4° 

Egyptian Goose: 3W
Shelduck: 2W
Great-crested Grebe: 1E   2W   6 present
Whimbrel: 4E (they came across then East)
Kittiwake: 1W
Black-headed Gull: 1W  
Common Gull: 57E
Great Black-backed Gull: 16W
Herring Gull: present n/c
Lesser Black-backed Gull: 2E
Sandwich Tern: 16E   5W
Common Tern:  26E  
Guillemot: 1W
Auk Sp: 5E    
Red-throated Diver: 4E
Gannet: 41E   78W
Cormorant: 67W          17E
Carrion Crow: 4 in off
Harbour Porpoise: 2
Grey Seal: 1
Wheatear: 1 behind the hide
2 of 3 Great White Egrets at the ARC, there 2 more on Denge Marsh
Another difficult day in the field, this weather is making finding migrants very difficult, a walk around the Long Pits found a very few Willow Warblers and 2 Wheatears that were probably new arrivals,  Common and Lesser Whitethroats, Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs and Reed Warblers were all easily be found around the pits but little else of note.
On the reserve Swallows and Sand Martins in most areas in small numbers, but still no Cuckoo or much else new in, The Great Northern diver and the Little gull are still to found on Burrowes. RW Found a Ring Ouzel in the Desert this afternoon of note.
Black-tailed Godwit Hayfield 2
1 of 2 Avocets on Hayfield 2
Greenshank, presumably the ARC bird relocating to Hayfield 2
Sedge Warbler Denge Marsh
Grey Heron on my shed roof late afternoon, hope the neighbours have covered there fish pond.

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