27/03/2025

The very elusive Hoopoe at the Kerton Road Quarry yesterday

 07.00-08.00 from the sea watch hide still and foggy.Brent Goose: 52E

Common Scoter:

Red-breasted Merganser: 2E

Great-Crested Grebe: 2 present

Oystercatcher: 4E

Sandwich tern: 6E

Little Gull: 2E

Black-headed Gull: 16E

Common Gull: 7E

Herring Gull: present

Great Black-backed Gull: 18E

Red-throated Diver: 17E

Gannet: 9E

Cormorant: present

Carrion Crow: 2E

Linnet: 7 present

Tree Sparrow nest boxes, last years and new ones, there are now at least 26 boxes in this colony. Many thanks to Paul Trodd for making the boxes.

I joined Owen on Walland Marsh today, checking and cleaning out Tree Sparrow nest boxes,  also putting up some more boxes. Most of the boxes put up last year were used by Tree Sparrows, so hopefully we can help to enlarge the colony. It was amazing how many feathers and how much grass was stuffed in the boxes, they were were all full to the top of compacted nesting material.

Very little news from today apart from 8 Goldeneye on the ARC, a Ruff and a Blue-headed wagtail on Dengemarsh.