A Slow Day!

From the sea watch hide with AJG
who collated the numbers.                                    From the fishing boats:
06.10-08.10                                                        15.40-17.00
Brent Goose: 47 E                                                Brent Goose: 3
Common Scoter: 152 E                                         Red-throated Diver: 5 E
Red-breasted Merganser: 2 up                               Gannet: 53 E
Red-throated Diver: 3 E                                        Arctic Skua: 6 E

Fulmar: 5 E                                                          Kittiwake: 1 W

Gannet: 65 E                                                        Sandwich Tern: c25 o/s

Oystercatcher: 16 E                                              Common Tern: 10 o/s

Great Skua: 3 E                                                    Auk sp: 4 W

Arctic Skua:                                                         Harbour Porpoise: 3+

Mediterranean  Gull: 2E  Ads

Sandwich Tern: 324 E

Common Tern: 7 E

Auk sp: 259 E

A faily slow day around the peninsular with a few migrants. Mid morning around the trapping area a beautiful male Redstart, 3 Willow Warblers, 4 Chiffchaffs, 2 Green Woodpeckers and a Marsh harrier of note.

Early afternoon around Dengemarsh area, 6 Ringed Plovers, 2 Little Ringed Plovers, 4 Lapwings and 2 Shelduck all on Hayfield 3. 2 Tundra Bean Geese, 2 Garganey, 6 Swallows, 2 Little Egrets and a Great White Egret of note. I couldn't find the Cattle Egrets today in a brief search.