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Whinchat An early morning message from Dave Bunney alerted me to a fine male Whinchat behind his house on The Point. A short sea watch...

As the sea was very quiet with just a handful of Sandwich Terns, Gannets and a marauding Arctic Skua off shore, I went down to The Patch w...

When I woke up early this morning I could hear the north wind howling outside so I turned over and went back to sleep for a couple more ho...

The sea was as expected very quiet this morning, the highlight being a Black Tern with c70 Common Terns at The Patch. One of two Spott...

 A resident male Wheatear After hearing from AJG the highlight of a 90 minute early morning sea watch which was 2 Hobby's I decide...

When I finally crawled out of bed this morning I decided on a wander around the reserve starting at Springfield Bridge. It was quite depres...

A shame to see the expensive shiny new Tern Raft on Burrowes Pit already has a pair of Herring Gulls mating on it, hopefully they will move...

04.50-09.00 &11.15-18.15 thanks to AJG for collating the numbers JC,RO et al Common Scoter: 203E  29W Red-throated Diver: 7E Black-t...

 1 of todays Grasshopper Warblers I joined CP,MH and PT on a trip to Northern France today, we visited various sites all within a 10 m...

This evenings Glaucous Gull by the fish hut found by Dave Bunney Probably my last silly o clock sea watch of the spring started well ...