Headed Straight to the sea watch hide this morning thinking the sea would produce after the yesterdays wipe out due to the fog. As I approached the hide a Great White Egret coasted up channel but that was  about as  good as it got.

06.30-07.50

Brent Goose: 27 up

Common Scoter: 10 down

Red-throated Diver: 6 up

Great-crested Grebe: present n/c

Fulmar: 1 up

Gannet: 47 up   26 down

Cormorant: present n/c

Great White Egret: 1 up

Oystercatcher: 14 up

Little Gull: 5 uo

Kittiwake: 1 down

Sandwich Tern: 239 up

Guillemot: 1 on sea

In the lighthouse garden 3 each of Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff. At the observatory at least 10 of each caught in The Moat. Around the trapping area at least another 9 Willow Warblers, 2 Chiffchaffs, a Blackcap, a Siskin and Fieldfare over, also a Grey Heron getting a hot reception from the local Herring Gulls as it came in off the sea.

A wander around Scotney found at least 10 Yellow Wagtails by the farm. At the back 14 Avocet, 4 Ringed Plovers, 4 Dunlin, 2 Redshank, 9 Oystercatchers, 2 Mediterranean Gulls among the Black-headed Gulls. On the fields there seemed to be good numbers of Skylarks and Corn Buntings.

 Yellow Wagtail at Scotney

Ring-necked Duck

This afternoon on Cook's Pool the Ring-necked duck was showing well, for the first time in it's stay I saw it fly a short distance. A Sedge Warbler was singing from the brambles there.

3 Black-necked Grebes and a Slavonian Grebe in near summer plumage are still on the New Diggings.

A short sea watch this afternoon from the turning circle was very slow, just a few Sandwich Terns tooing and froing and a few Gannets feeding.

Early evening on Walland 40+ Tree Sparrows, 4 Yellowhammers, 2 Green Woodpeckers and a Great- spotted Woodpecker at Midley, elsewhere 2 Marsh Harriers and 2 Common Buzzards.