Stilts!

Another day of cold blasting North Easterlies producing another poor sea watch:

06.00-08.30 with DW and AJG who kindly collated the numbers:

Brent Goose: 3 E

Shelduck: 2 E

Common Scoter 103: E

Red-breasted Merganser: 9 E

Fulmar: 9 E

Gannet: 76 E

Whimbrel: 4 E

Oystercatche:r 11 E

Arctic Skua: 1 E

Great Skua: 1 E

Sandwich Tern: 57 E

Common Tern: 27 E

Kittiwake: 1 W

Swallow: 2 in

 Great Black Backed Gull giving the Dogfish the coup de grace!

 Whimbrel beside the road near Jarmans.

Long range shot of Black-winged Stilts and 2 of the 6 Garganey.

At Dengemarsh 2 Black-winged Stilts were found by MH, also there of note 6 Garganey, 2 Tundra Bean Geese, 4 Egyptian Geese, a Peregrine, 4 Marsh Harriers, 4+ Bearded Tits, many Sedge Warblers, Reed Warblers, Cetti's Warblers and Bittern booming.

On the Hayfields 5+ Little Ringed Plovers, 6 Ringed Plovers, 2 Redshank, a Snipe & 5+ pairs of Lapwing.