Common Redpolls!

07.40-09.10 from The Point with SG and MH

Brent Goose: 34E       169W

Shelduck: 4E             4W

Pintail: 11W

Wigeon: 109W

Teal: 3W

Common Scoter: 45E       78W

Red-breasted Merganser: 1E    2W

Great-crested Grebe: 5W

Red-throated Diver: 3E     4W     1on

Great Northern Diver: 1E

Gannet: 45E

Cormorant: present n/c

Oystercatcher: 3E

Turnstone: 1 on beach

Kittiwake: 9 around

Mediterranean Gull: 4 around

Auk sp: 20E    27W

Alba Wagtail: 4 in

Meadow Pipit: 1 in

Goldfinch: 12E

Linnet: 2 over

Chaffinch: 1 over

Harbour Porpoise: 2+

Our sea watch was cut short by a call from DW to say he had caught a Common Redpoll. 

 Common Redpolls

 Common Redpolls

 Common Redpoll in The Moat

Little Auk at The Patch

As I was leaving the Observatory PT called with news that he found a Little Auk at The Patch, minutes later I arrived with Auk still present but always distant, it eventually drifted east along the scum line. Also there another 31 Brent Geese passed west.

Early afternoon at the ARC from Hanson, a Bittern flew to the tower pits, a Water Rail in the reeds in front the hide, the usual wildfowl, a Marsh Harrier and a Great White Egret. In the Willow Trail a Cetti's Warbler, a Chiffchaff and a Goldcrest.

As I was leaving the hide a message from AK about the return of the Cattle Egret which was  still performing when I arrived a couple of minutes later.

 Cattle Egret doing what they do!

Cattle Egret

I joined some locals at The Point this afternoon unfortunately after most of the movement had occurred.

14.20-15.30

Brent Goose: 1E     64W

Common Scoter: 1W

Red-throated Diver: 1E         2W

Sooty Shearwater: 2E

Gannet: c20 around

Dunlin: 2W

Kittiwake: 25+ around

Mediterranean Gull: 12+ around

Guillemot: 34E    2W

Razorbill: 52E      1W  

Auk sp: 346E       7W