Little Owl!

05.30-08.00 from the sea watch hide. Thanks to AJG for collating the numbers.

Velvet Scoter: 2W

Common Scoter: 68E

Fulmar: 2E

Gannet: 68W

Oystercatcher: 5E

Great Skua: 1E

Arctic Skua: 3E

Pomarine Skua: 1E

Kittiwake: 12E

Sandwich Tern: 68E

Commic Tern: 238E

Guillemot: 8E

Auk sp: 14E

Swift: 1 in

Swallow: 6 in

A wander around the trapping area and Long Pits found of note 5 Blackcaps singing, 5 Reed Warblers singing, a Chiffchaff, a Lesser Whitethroat, a Spotted Flycatcher, 2 Turtle Doves and 12 Jackdaws over.

 Round Lloyds and West Beach 2 Wheatears and a singing Black Redstart.

Another hour sea watcing 10.15-11.15 saw only a single Kittiwake east of any note. At the south end of the ARC a handsome White Wagtail and a Cuckoo, along with a Swallows and Swifts over the lake.

 In Lydd a Little Owl took no notice of me as it ran around and flew to perches while hunting worms and insects

 This afternoon at Dengemarsh 3 Hobby's and a Marsh Harrier could just about be seen through the thickening sea fog that put end to today's biding as it rolled in at lunchtime.

A few more moths today in the Plodland trap the best being this male Muslin Moth.