08.15-09.30 from the fishing boats with MH:
Common Scoter: 3 down
Red-throated Diver: 6 up 31 down
Great-crested Grebe: 40+ on sea
Gannet: 7 up 24 down
Turnstone: 5 around
Great Skua: 1 around
Mediterranean Gull: 1 down (2w)
Little Gull: 1 around (1w)
Kittiwake: 15 down
Guillemot: c200 around
Razorbill: 4+ around
Grey Seal: 1
Driving back across the causeway 2 Slavonian Grebes at the Boulderwall end. Around The Willow Trail a Water Rail, 2 calling Cetti's Warblers and a small Tit flock comprising Long-tailed, Blue and Great.
The Ring-necked Duck still showing on Cook's Pool, also a Great White Egret at the far end with a Little Egret. Over the fields there a Common Buzzard and a Marsh Harrier flushing the Lapwing and Golden Plover and a few Dunlin.
Just the 1 Long-eared Owl at the Dipping Pool today, 2 Goosander flew over Burrowes and another Water rail was at Scott Hide.
At Scotney the Black-necked Grebe still on the lake behind the barns, a Little Owl was also present, a Peregrine, Common Buzzard and 2 Marsh Harriers were hunting the fields nut didn't bother the 14 Egyptian Geese there. On the sward 3 Pinkfeet and 3 Tundra Bean Geese among the hordes of Greylags and Barnacle Geese.
1w Caspian Gull at the Fish Hut this afternoon
Another short sea watch this afternoon saw no change from this morning, though the regular 1w Caspian Gull was at the Fish Hut.
In the fields down Dengemarsh Road 2 Ruff and another 6 Egyptian Geese. A smart male Sparrowhawk made an unsuccessful attack on the finch flock at Springfield Bridge, also there a Great White Egret but little else.
Elsewhere the Stejneger's Stonechat reported as still present as was the Red-necked Grebe, the Bewick Swans at Horsesbones Farm and the drake Eider at The Point.