Windswept Dunge!

07.40-08.40 from the sea watch hide:

Westerly 5 with showers:

Brent Goose: 95 E

Common Scoter: 5E

Red-throated Diver: 9E  3W  5 on sea

Great-crested Grebe: 6 on sea

Fulmar: 4W

Gannet: 20E  2W

Oystercatcher: 1W

Kittiwake: 1W

Auk: 3E  4W

Not the most exciting hour!

Herring Gull/Glaucous Gull Hybrid????

Another interesting Gull in the roost on The Point picked out by DW, looks like its got some Glaucous Gull in its lineage.

At a wind swept Scotney the 3 Black-necked Grebes were sheltering in the Kent pool, 2 Curlews and 50 Golden Plover could be seen on the turf along with the lonesome Barnacle Goose.

On Walland no sign of the Bewick Swans and Whooper Swan, presumably the Bewicks are on there way back to Russia. I have no idea about the Whooper!

The 2 Cattle Egrets were showing well in the ditch by the chicken sheds today! 

Early evening at the Egret roost 9 Littles, 4 Great Whites and 2 Cattle Egrets came in. While I was waiting 2 redhead Smew and a Goosander flew over, as did 6 Marsh Harriers.