A few Migrants!

07.15-08.00 from the fishing boats:

Gannet: 31 up

Shelduck: 1 up

Arctic Skua: 8 up

Sandwich Tern: 47 up

Swallow: 48 out

Meadow Pipit: 27 out

Yellow Wagtail: 2 out

Wheatear: 1 on beach

Harbour Porpoise: 2

Clouded yellow: 1 in

 Wheatear in The Desert

Mid to late morning around The Desert and southern edge of the trapping area of note:

Marsh Harrier: 3 all juveniles

Wheatear: 7

Redstart: 2   1 in Desert + 1 in the moat ringed this morning

Great-spotted Woodpecker: 2

Swallow: 178 over

House Martin: 83 over

Sand Martin: 37 over

Meadow Pipit: 52 over

Blackcap: 13

Lesser Whitethroat: 3

Common Whitethroat: 3

Chiffchaff: 5

Yellow Wagtail: 2

Sparrowhawk: 1

 Redstart in the Moat

Early afternoon at Dengemarsh from Springfield Bridge:  2 Great White Egrets, 2 Hobby's and a Common Buzzard.

 Glossy Ibis ARC

Mid afternoon at the ARC of note: The Glossy Ibis, 5 Ruff, 6 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Dunlin, 100+ Golden Plover, 2 Turnstone, 1+ Garganey, the female Red-crested Pochard, 2 Black-necked grebes and another Hobby.

 Red-throated Diver at The Fishing Boats

Half an hour late afternoon at the fishing boats, a Red-throated Diver close in shore, a Guillemot, 3 Arctic Skuas chasing Sandwich Terns, a few Gannets and 2 adult Yellow-legged Gulls in the roost.

2 adult Yellow-legged Gulls by the fishing boats