08.00-10.30 from the hide:
Teal: 6W
Common Scoter: 1E
Fulmar: 5W
Balearic Shearwater: 1W
Gannet: 268W. 4E
Cormorant: 7 around
Dunlin: 4W
Great Skua: 1W
Arctic Skua: 2W 1E
Kittiwake: 56W 3E
Sandwich Tern: 219W
Common Tern: 220W
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 2+
While having a cup of tea in the observatory garden Jacques suddenly shouted Long-tailed Blue, the butterfly had flown in over our heads and fortunately landed on the garden plants, brilliant! a Dungeness first for me.
After lunch at the ARC there was very little to change from the last few days, plenty of Wood Sandpipers, the same 4 Ruff, 7 Garganey etc. Oh how easy it is to become blase!
As I was parking my car at the fishing boats this afternoon the heavens opened, so I made my way to Firth Hide instead, where a juvenile Black Tern was still present and there was an adult Yellow-legged Gull on one of the islands, waders were represented by 10+ Dunlin, 8+ Common Sandpipers, a Greenshank, a Green Sandpiper, a Whimbrel and a Ringed Plover all being battered by the deluge.
Teal: 6W
Common Scoter: 1E
Fulmar: 5W
Balearic Shearwater: 1W
Gannet: 268W. 4E
Cormorant: 7 around
Dunlin: 4W
Great Skua: 1W
Arctic Skua: 2W 1E
Kittiwake: 56W 3E
Sandwich Tern: 219W
Common Tern: 220W
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 2+
Long-tailed Blue
After lunch at the ARC there was very little to change from the last few days, plenty of Wood Sandpipers, the same 4 Ruff, 7 Garganey etc. Oh how easy it is to become blase!
A Dunlin in front of Firth Hide during this afternoons deluge
Common Sandpiper being battered by the deluge
A Greenshank bought in by the rain
Just for Jacques
Swallows drying out on the roof of the VC