Very quiet watch from the sea watch hide this morning.

08.05-09.05:

Common Scoter: 2W

Great Crested Grebe: 3 around

Fulmar: 3W

Gannet: 20W   43E

Cormorant: present n/c

Dunlin: 6W

Yellow-legged Gull: 1 juvenile on beach

Kittiwake: 8W

Sandwich Tern: 2W

Common Tern: 11W

Sand Martin: 6S

Grey Seal: 1

Harbour Porpoise: 4+

Mid morning on Burrowes of note a Little Stint, a Turnstone, 3 Dunlin and 6 Common Sandpipers.

On the ARC still 100s of Greylags hogging the islands and still 100s of eclipse wildfowl, also c200 Sand Martins over the lake.

Another sea watch this afternoon from the fishing boats was even quieter than this morning:

14.00-15.00

Common Scoter: 3W

Gannet: 17W         11E

Sanderling: 1W

Sandwich Tern: 40W

Common Tern: 28W

Harbour Porpoise: 3

Wandering along the beach towards the lifeboat station I watched a Great Black Backed Gull steal a Plaice form a Cormorant then swallow it, the Plaice was still struggling in the Gulls gullet when swallowed.

 At Scotney late afternoon a Spotted Redshank from the double bends, also 7 Common Sandpipers around the lake, 22 Curlew, 7 Whimbrel, also the the Barnacle Goose flock have returned from there summer sojourn.

Spotted Redshank at Scotney