Domestic stuff this morning meant a late start at The Point and missing a good passage off shore the highlights being: 31 Little Gulls, 820 Brent Geese, 2 Velvet Scoter, a drake Goosander and 300+ Red-throated Divers all per AJG.
Meeting AJG and DW at the car park and being told the passage had dried up was not what I wanted to hear, but I made my way to the beach any way. As I walked up the shingle bank a flock of c1200 Brent Geese went by with more coming in the distance. My totals as follows:
Red-throated Diver: n/c estimate 60+ W
Brent Geese: 1780E
Common Scoter: 10E
Wigeon: 30E
Pintail: 1E
Oystercatcher: 19E
Mediterranean Gull: 1E
Pied wagtail: 2 in
Meadow Pipit: 4 in
Goldcrest: On power station wall
Chiffchaff: On power station wall
Black Redstart: On power station wall
2 Great White Egrets were on New Diggings from the causeway and a red head Smew was at the south end of the ARC. The duck Red-crested Pochard was still on its usual lake. I gave Hanson a miss as the car park was packed.
A short visit to the reserve where DW found a Caspian Gull which flew off before I arrived. The drake Red-crested Pochard was trying its hardest not to look like a migrant, by spending the last 2 days on the children's discovery pool next to the visitor centre following a Coot around.
Opposite the Midley drying barns I was surprised to see 34 Bewick Swans and a Whooper Swan still present. At the north end of the marsh 100s of Fieldfares in the fields.
At Galloways this afternoon a Barn Owl and the male Hen Harrier per MH.
Meeting AJG and DW at the car park and being told the passage had dried up was not what I wanted to hear, but I made my way to the beach any way. As I walked up the shingle bank a flock of c1200 Brent Geese went by with more coming in the distance. My totals as follows:
Red-throated Diver: n/c estimate 60+ W
Brent Geese: 1780E
Common Scoter: 10E
Wigeon: 30E
Pintail: 1E
Oystercatcher: 19E
Mediterranean Gull: 1E
Pied wagtail: 2 in
Meadow Pipit: 4 in
Goldcrest: On power station wall
Chiffchaff: On power station wall
Black Redstart: On power station wall
2 Great White Egrets were on New Diggings from the causeway and a red head Smew was at the south end of the ARC. The duck Red-crested Pochard was still on its usual lake. I gave Hanson a miss as the car park was packed.
A short visit to the reserve where DW found a Caspian Gull which flew off before I arrived. The drake Red-crested Pochard was trying its hardest not to look like a migrant, by spending the last 2 days on the children's discovery pool next to the visitor centre following a Coot around.
Opposite the Midley drying barns I was surprised to see 34 Bewick Swans and a Whooper Swan still present. At the north end of the marsh 100s of Fieldfares in the fields.
At Galloways this afternoon a Barn Owl and the male Hen Harrier per MH.
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