Entertaining Chiffy!

As I drove to the fishing boats this morning 2 Great White Egrets could be seen on the New Excavations.

From the fishing boats 07.15-08.15:

Gannet: 4 up   2 down

Teal: 10 down

Shoveller: 2 down

Wigeon: 33 down

Brent Goose: 21 up   49 down

Arctic Skua: 2 around

Common Tern: 2 around

Sandwich Tern: c15 around

Guillemot: 1 off shore

Swallow: 232 north

Meadow Pipit: 103 north

Linnet: flock of c70 around the beach

Chiffchaff: 1 keeping me entertained picking insects from the underside of the boat.

Grey Seal: 1

Harbour Porpoise: 2+

 Chiffchaff on fishing boat rudder.

 Chiffchaff at the fishing boats

 Chiffchaff at the fishing boats

 Chiffchaff with moth that it plucked from under the boats. (no doubt a first for Britain)

A walk from the observatory covering The Desert, Lighthouse Garden, Lloyds, West beach and part or the trapping area, not including The moat which was full of Chiffchaffs sporting shiny new rings saw of note:

Peregrine: 2

Sparrowhawk: 5

Kestrel: 6

Swallow: 107

Meadow Pipit: 203

Wheatear: 3

Black Redstart: 4

Great Spotted Woodpecker: 2 in from the sea

Green Woodpecker: 2

Chiffchaff: 38

Blackcap: 4

Hare: 1 

Fox: 1 

 Great Spotted Woodpecker(male)

 Great spotted Woodpecker(female)

 Hare

Early Afternoon at the ARC from Hanson saw 2 Garganey still, the Red-crested Pochard, a Black-necked Grebe, c150 Golden Plover, c200 Lapwing, 3 Ruff, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Marsh Harrier along with large numbers of the common wildfowl. The Glossy Ibis was at the south end of the ARC.

 Little Gulls

This afternoon from the fishing boats 15.05-16.35(I arrived at 15.25 in time to see the distant Sooty)
Gannet 2

Sooty Shearwater 1 up at 1510 and one down at 1545(up at c150m distance, other probably same bird at 1 mile)

Scoter 8 down

Teal 5 down

Wigeon 1 down

Little Gull 5 juv down

Sandwich Tern 59 down

Common Tern 1 down

Guillemot: 1 on sea

Swallow 303 down

Guillemot