07.00-08.00 from the sea watch hide with LG.

Brent Goose: 42 up

Pintail: 59 up (single flock)

Common Scoter: 57 up

Red-throated Diver: 5 up  2 down

Great-crested Grebe: present n/c

Fulmar: 4 up

Gannet: 67 up

Cormorant: present n/c

Caspian Gull: 1 up

Kittiwake: 12 up

Sandwich Tern: 1 up

Auk sp: 3 up

Harbour Porpoise: 17

 1w Iceland Gull at The Patch

A Goldcrest and Grey Wagtail were by the perimeter wall as we walked down to The Patch. At The Patch both 1w Iceland Gulls, a Mediterranean Gull and another Sandwich Tern. 

 Black Redstart at the old lighthouse

2+ Black Redstarts, several Meadow Pipits, a Stonechat and a Wheatear by the old lighthouse this morning.

Starling in the garden

On the reserve, 6 Black-necked Grebes and 2 Slavonian Grebes on the New Diggings, the Ring-necked Duck still present, also 2 Smew and the Long-eared Owls. Yesterday evening 6 Great White Egrets came into the ARC roost also a male Merlin there.

 2nd cal yr Caspian Gull

This afternoon at the fishing boats a 2nd cal year Caspian Gull and 3 3rd year Yellow-legged Gulls came to the offerings, also 2 Peregrines came in off the sea.

 1 of 2 Peregrines at the fishing boats this afternoon

3rd cal yr Yellow-legged Gull