Busy Seawatch

Arctic Tern

From the fishing boats 08.00-10.30

Red-Throated Diver: 4w
Great-Northern Diver: 1w (Superb Summer Plumaged)
Black-Necked Grebe: 1w
Great-Crested Grebe: 20+os
Manx Shearwater: 1w
Balearic Shearwater: 1w
Shearwater sp: 1w
Brent Geese: 60
Shelduck: 3w
Mallard: 2w
Shoveler: 1w
Teal: 1w
Eider; 1w Adult Drake
Common Scoter: 105
Red-Breasted Merganser: 6w
Merlin: 2 out
Knot: 1w
Dunlin: 12w
Sanderling: 14w
Gannet: 85w
Pomarine Skua: 6w
Med Gull: 4w
Kittiwake: 160w
Yellow-Legged Gull: 1 On the beach
Little Gull: 3w
Sandwich Tern: 2w
Arctic Tern: 3w
Auks (Guillemots and Razorbills): 100s w
Swallow: 3 out
Skylark: 15 out
Goldfinch: Several hundred out (with a few Siskin,Redpoll, meadow Pipit and Pied Wagtail)

At the ARC again quiet with highlights of 2 Avocet, 3 Sparrowhawks, 3 Marsh Harriers, 1 Common Buzzard, 2 Stonechats and 5 Goldcrests.

Coming home across Walland Marsh a flock of 100+ Fieldfare and 2 Mistle Thrushes Hawthorn Corner.