Gulls!

08.00-09.00 from The Point, just enough to keep me entertained. The Purple Sandpiper being the highlight.

Red-throated Diver: 1 NE   15 SW

Black-throated Diver: 2 SW

Great-crested Grebe: 7 around

Gannet: 10 NE      13 SW

Cormorant: c150 around

Purple Sandpiper: 1 SW

Kittiwake: 5 SW      3 around

Auk sp: 6 SW       2 NE

On the New Diggings a Great White Egret and 2 Goosander, the Long-eared Owl still showing at the back of the dipping pool, 4 Smew now on Burrowes, also 2 Goosander, a Kingfisher and 2 Brambling over. 

After a full English at home I had a run around a very windswept Walland Marsh, plenty of Tree Sparrows in the usual spots, a flock of c100 Fieldfare with a few Redwing, also pleasingly Greenfinches seemed to be plentiful but most birds had there heads down.

At Scotney ad adult Caspian Gull and 3 adult Yellow-legged Gulls, but little else of note. 

 Ad Caspian Gull + ad Yellow-legged Gull (preening)

3w Caspian Gull from Makepiece

An early afternoon visit to the fishing boats was cut short by a deterioration in the weather, so I retired to the VC for a cup of tea with MH in the OFC. We decided to investigate a report of Red-necked Phalarope from Makepiece, where we found another adult and a 3w Caspian Gull also 2 more adult Yellow-legged Gulls but no Phalarope. The Long-eared Owl was still present at dusk.

Couldn't resist another image of yesterdays Glossy Ibis at Pett.