Mostly Sea Watching

Yellow-legged Gull in the roost

07.00-10.30 & 13.50-16.00 from the fishing boats
Brent Goose: 80 W

Wigeon: 2 W

Teal: 1 W

Common Scoter: 15 W

Great-crested Grebe: 4 on sea

Gannet: 524 W

Turnstone: 2 on beach

Dunlin: 1 W

Great Skua: 3 W

Arctic Skua: 4 around

Mediteranean Gull: 3 W

Yellow-legged Gull: 2 ads in roost

Little Gull: 2 W

Kittiwake: 9 W

Sandwich Tern: 102 W

Common Tern: 19 W

Swallow: 1 W

Grey Seal: 1

Harbour Porpoise: 2

Late morning at the ARC from Hanson Great White Egret, Black-necked Grebe, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, 4 Ruff, 3 Dunlin, c200 Golden Plover, c50 Lapwing, Water Rail, 6 Swallows through, 2 Marsh Harriers plus the usual wild fowl but no Garganey today. In the bushes several Chiffchaffs and Cetti's Warblers. Over the road by the entrance track the Cattle Egret still present.

Late afternoon on Burrowes Pit, a Greenshank, 3 Dunlin, 2 Common Snipe, a Great White Egret, 3 Little Egrets were the highlights. 

Amblyptillia acanthadactyla (Beautiful Plume) from the Plodland trap