06/05/2025

 With the relentless cool NE wind still howling across the peninsula this morning there were even fewer birds than yesterday moving at sea. 

07.00-08.30 from the hide with RW

Common Scoter: 8E    5W

Great-crested Grebe: 8 present  

Oystercatcher: 3E

Little Tern: 1E

Sandwich Tern: 20E     8W

Commic Tern: 2E

Kittiwake: 5E   

Black-headed Gull: 4E

Herring Gull: Present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: Present n/c

Auk sp: 7E    1W

Gannet: 33E     18W

Cormorant: present

Swallow 8 in off

Harbour Porpoise: 1

At the ARC the 2 Avocets were still present  late morning along with 2 Ringed Plovers, but all the Common terns have departed. They may be back as the islands are now appearing quite rapidly.

Lapwing Chicks on Hayfield 1 today, cuteness overload. Also 3 Bar-tailed Godwits, 3 Redshank a Greenshank and an Avocet there. While I was there a Bittern was booming in the reed bed behind me and Bearded Tits were calling.

Lapwing Chicks

At least 15 Hobbys were present around the reserve today, making light of the wind.

This young female Sparrowhawk caught this careless Starling in my garden early this evening, after 40 minutes of plucking and feeding something spooked it, it flew up on to my fence with the Staling in its claws before disappearing into neighbouring gardens.