Colour Rings in a Deluge!

06.15-10.10 with AJG from the sea watch hide who kindly collated the numbers:
Common Scoter: 35 up
Great-crested Grebe: 3 up
Fulmar: 5 down
Manx Shearwater: 5 down
Balearic Shearwater: 7 down
Gannet: 1,002 down
Peregrine: 4 around
Turnstone: 1 down
Arctic Skua: 2 down
Kittiwake: 15 down
Sandwich Tern 57 down
Common Tern: 109 down
Guillemot: 2 down

13.55-15-40 from the sea watch hide with AJG who collated the numbers:

Common Scoter: 17 up

Great-crested Grebe: 1 down

Balearic Shearwater: 4 down

Gannet: 86 down

Kittiwake: 1 down

Common Tern: 5 dow

Sandwich Tern: 52 down

 Yellow-billed Teal from Firth

 Black-tailed Godwit

An interesting couple of hours in Firth hide late afternoon where Yellow-billed Teal spent the time

feeding in front the hide, during one of the frequent deluges 30 Black-tailed Godwits including a multi colour ring and flagged individual dropped in (probably part of a French scheme). Also present 17 Dunlin, an aberrant Ringed Plover, 10+ Common Sandpipers, a Little Stint, 3 Little Ringed Plovers, a colour ringed Great White Egret and many Swifts and Sand Martins over the lake, but no sign of the Pectoral Sandpiper this afternoon.

 Black-tailed Godwits from Firth in a deluge

 Bickering Black-tailed Godwits

 Dunlin sheltering in front of Firth

 An aberrant Ringed Plover

 Common Sandpiper

 Egyptian Goslings sheltering from the deluge

1 of this years Great White Egrets from Ham Walls Somerset (colour ring red AAH)