Sunshine birding!

06.30-08.00 from the concrete road. Totals collated by AJG:

Gannet: 34 down

Fulmar: up to 6 around

Teal: 18 down

Common Scoter: 5 down

Bonxie: 1 down

Arctic Skua: up to 7 around

Greenshank: one heard calling over

G S Woodpecker: 1 in off the sea.

Swallow: 25 out

Harbour Porpoise: 2+ off shore

 By the power station perimeter wall 2 Hummingbird Hawkmoths and Clouded Yellow, At The Patch many Gulls and few Commic Tern but nothing of note. In the lighthouse Garden " Willow Warblers, 2 Chiffchaffs and a Spotted Fycatcher. West Beach,the station gorse and the Desert were virtually birdless.
At the south end of ARC 2 Spotted Redshanks, 2 Ruff, 4 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Garganey and the 3 Egyptian Geese.
On the reserve the Great White Egret still at Dengemarsh, 4 Whinchats and a Spotted Flycatcher behind Christmas Dell, a Black-necked Grebe, 2 Ruff and 2 Common Sandpipers on Burrowes.

Pied flycatcher Dengemarsh Gully

 This afternoon in Dengemarsh Gully a Pied Flycatcher, 2+ Common Whitethroats and 21 Yellow Wagtails.
A walk around the hayfields which now have a little water in them found 6 more Whinchats, 200+ Greylags on hayfield 3 and 4 Little Egrets, hopefully some waders will start to drop in.
Late afternoon from Hanson where the volunteers have made an excellent job of cutting back the reeds in front the hide today, 3 Spotted Redshanks, 3 Garganey, the Glossy Ibis and 2 Common Sandpipers of note.

dark morph Orange Swift.