Harbour Porpoise demise

Sea watch from the fishing boats 08.00-09.25 with DW, PT and MH: The first thing I saw was a dead Harbour Porpoise on the high tide line. It looks like the fins have been cut off, so it was probably trapped in a fishing boats nets.

Red-throated Diver: c100+ off shore

Great-crested Grebe: 1300+ off shore

Fulmar: 1w

Gannets: c100w

Common Scoter: 7w

Red-breasted Merganser: 1w

Turstone: c20 on beach

Dunlin: c200w

Bonxie: 1+ off shore

Kittiwakes: c100 off shore

Auks: 1000+ off shore (probably equal numbers of Guillemots and Razorbills)

Harbour Porpoise

A call from CT had us hot footing it to Scotney where he and BH had found 7 Greater Whitefronted Geese and a single Pinkfoot among 100s of Greylags and a Bar-headed Goose. A spectacular sight was a male Hen Harrier beating up a Peregrine over the pit and at the same time flushing 1000s of Lapwing and Golden Plover, also there a Slavonian Grebe picked out by DW a Marsh Harrier over and 100s of Wigeon, Tufted duck and Pochard.
From the Causeway 1 Great White Egret and 3 Smew also another Great White Egret on the ARC pit.
Out on Walland Marsh the Common Crane still showing distantly, 46 Bewick Swans, 2 Whooper Swans, 6 Waxwings found by CT and BH.
This afternoon 14 Mistle Thrushes at Cold Harbour and only 3 Fieldfares now that the huge flocks of last month have stripped the bushes of berries. A late afternoon watch on an isolated reed bed  in the hope that some Harriers might come into roost drew a blank but 6 Bearded Tits and some squealing Water Rails was some recompense.