Late morning at The Point and the sea was covered in Great Crested Grebes and Cormorants with a few Guillemots. Red Throated Divers were streaming east into Lade Bay with a few Gannets, Kittiwakes and Auks also 14 Common Scoters. While I was there the Glaucous Gull was flying up and down insisting on yet another photograph.
The south end of the ARC 5 Smew (1 drake), 6 Goldeneye, c200 Shoveler, a Great White Egret and a Little Egret. From Hanson another 10 Smew (1 drake), 5 Goldeneye, another Great White Egret with the usual wildfowl. With the Long Tailed Tit flock in the Willow Trail were a Chiffchaff and Goldcrest. The bushes round the car park had c20 Tree Sparrows with 3 Marsh Harriers over.
From the track to the visitor centre a single Tundra Bean Goose with the Greylags. 24 Barnacle Geese (possibly a new flock as no hybrids present), c100 Curlew, c150 Golden Plover, c500 Lapwing, 2 Marsh Harriers and a Common Buzzard. Scotney was again disappointing.
On Walland this afternoon the Whooper Swan and Bewick Swan herd still present, if you want to see them I would do it in the next few days as they will very soon be off. Also still 100s of Fieldfare with a few Redwing and Mistle Thrushes feeding in the fields. A walk out from the Woolpack towards the windmills was disappointing, as the only geese I could find were Greylags, though the spectacle of 1000s of Lapwing, Golden Plover and Starlings doing aerobatics as a Peregrine came through was worth the walk, with a Barn Owl on the way back the icing on the cake.
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