Waders and Wildfowl!

I joined DW at fishing boats this morning and later joined by RS: All West unless otherwise stated.

Balearic Shearwater: 1

Manx Shearwater: 1

Gannet: c150

Common Scoter: 265

Velvet Scoter: 2 (Minutes before I arrived)

Long-tailed Duck: 1

Wigeon: 39

Merlin: 1 around

Arctic Skua: 3+

Great Skua: 5

Little Gull: 1

Kittiwake: 2

Mediterranean Gull: 1

Sandwich Tern: 155

Guillemot: 2

Razorbill: 2

Auk sp: 12

Swallow: 52 out

Grey Wagtail: 1 out

Goldfinch: c1,800 out

Linnet: c150 out

Siskin: c20 out 

At the ARC from Hanson the Glossy Ibis still wandering around the islands, joined by a Curlew Sandpiper, 8 Dunlin, 5 Grey Plover, 2 Greenshanks, a Redshank, 2 Black-tailed Godwits, 1 Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Turnstone, 6 Common Snipe, c100 Golden Plover and c150 Lapwing. A Bittern gave a close fly by view, a Red-crested Pochard was roosting on and island along with good numbers of dabblers being occasionally flushed by a Marsh Harrier.  

 By the track to the reserve a Wheatear, 2 Stonechats and in the gull roost a colour ringed Great Black Backed Gull and a colour ringed Herring Gull both too distant to read.
On Burrowes Pit, 2+ Great White Egret, 9 Little Egrets, 4 Black-necked Grebes, a Little Stint, a Ruff, a Greenshank, 4 Common Snipe and all the usual wildfowl and Marsh Harriers.

Late afternoon at Scotney very few birds, the exception being the feral Barnacle Geese and a Marsh Harrier.