Southerly Blow!

1w Iceland Gull past the sea watch hide this morning.

05.45-09.45:

Brent Goose: 620E

Shoveller: 6E

Common Scoter: 429E

Velvet Scoter: 1E

Red-throated diver: 52E

Great-crested Grebe: 6E       13 on sea

Fulmar: 27E      6W

Gannet: 204E    11W

Cormorant: present

Oystercatcher: 5E

Arctic Skua: 3E

Kittiwake: 25E

Mediterranean Gull: 12E

Iceland Gull: 1 o/s

Yellow-legged Gull: 1   2w o/s

Sandwich Tern: 19E   1W

Guillemot: 6E

Auk sp: 6E

Harbour Porpoise: 3+

After an entertaining 4hrs in the hide I was numb with cold, so I went home for a warming cooked breakfast and coffee then promptly nodded off for an hour.

Early afternoon at Boulderwall the remaining Spoonbill was awake and had a little fly around, 6 Smew there including 2 drakes and 2 Little Egrets.

 Firecrest in the lighthouse garden.

In the lighthouse garden Firecrests were showing well, it seemed every bush or piece of scrub around the peninsula held at least 1 Firecrest. A text from BM telling of a Common Tern at The Patch, I arrived at the hide shortly after seeing 2 Common Terns there.

Another sea watch mid afternoon 15.45-16.45:

Brent Goose: 6E
Common Scoter: 10E
Red-breasted Merganser: 2E      1W
Red-throated Diver: 5E
Fulmar: 1W
Gannet: 65E
Great Skua: 1E
Kittiwake: 5E
Little Gull: 1E
Auk sp: 2E
Harbour Porpoise: 2+

Late afternoon 2 Black-necked Grebes and 2 Slavonian Grebes were on the New Diggings. A Tundra Bean Goose was in the fields behind Dengemarsh with 7 Barnacle Geese, 2 Egyptian Geese and several Greylag Geese.  

Early Grey from the Plodland MV this morning.