Brents on the move!

I joined BB at 07.00 in the sea watch hide, when he left at 08.00 I was joined by BH, OL and The Joker till 10.00 when passage fizzled out.

Red-throated Diver:      14E

Black-throated Diver:      1E

Fulmar:                          7E

Gannet:                      202E

Brent Goose:             4623E

Shelduck:                       1E

Shoveler:                        2E

Wigeon:                          6E

Common Scoter:          790E

Red Breasted Merganser: 12E

Oystercatcher:                 12E

Curlew:                          19E

Peregrine:                        1 around

Sandwich Tern:               32E

Common Tern:                253E

Little Gull:                       21E

Mediterranean Gull:           2E     1 Around

Kittiwake:                        2 around

Glaucous Gull:                the usual 1w bird

A wander around the Lighthouse with BH saw just a Chiffchaff in the garden and a Redwing in the research station.

On Dengemarsh a Slavonian Grebe in transitional plumage and a few Sedge Warblers singing.

Another sea watch from the concrete road at lunch time was a non event. On the ARC from the causeway 3 Common Terns and a Little Gull of note.