07.45-08.45 from the fishing boats not the most riveting sea watch:
Great Crested Grebe: 7 off shore
Gannet: 375 E
Common Scoter: 26E 4W
Arctic Skua: 2E
Kittiwake: 3E
Common Tern: 7W 3E
Sandwich Tern: 1E
Sand Martin: 12 out
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: c4
On Burrowes of note 2 Black-necked Grebes among the many Coot and Eclipse duck, 2 Common Sandpipers, 2 Little Gulls, 2 Egyptian Geese, 2 Whimbrel over and a Wood sandpiper that dropped in briefly. Also there a female Tufted duck trying to impersonate a Scaup.
At the ARC highlights were 2 Common Sandpipers, 4 Little Ringed Plovers, 2 Common Snipe, an eclipse Garganey among all the other eclipse wildfowl, 200+ Sand Martins a Marsh Harrier and several Willow Warblers.
A sea watch late afternoon from the fishing boats was no improvement on this morning with an adult Mediterranean Gull, a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, a Whimbrel and a few Common Terns fishing.
Early evening from Springfield Bridge the Great White Egret and a Hobby.
Looking at your totals for the hour, I think I must have been at the wrong fishing boats, or half asleep. I was near the last boat by the new lighthouse.
ReplyDeleteWe watch from the fishing boats that are approximately 400mts east of the New Lighthouse.
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