A wander around the Lighthouse area this morning produced no migrants, the trapping area and Desert wasn't much better producing a handful of Willow Warblers and Common Whitethroats.

 A very distant pic of the 2 Spotted Redshanks on Dengemarsh

On the reserve Burrowes was predictably quiet with the work of re-building islands causing inevitable but hopefully worthwhile disturbance. 6 Black-tailed Godwits were in front of Firth and as is now usual 100s of Sand Martins were hawking over the lake. At Denge Marsh of note 2 Spotted Redshanks were new in, 4 Golden Plover, 3 Ruff, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Common Snipe, a Yellow Wagtail, 4 Great White Egrets and 3 Little Egrets. 

  Great White Egret (red AAH) hatched this year at RSPB Ham Walls, Somerset.

Another doomed Herring Gull at the fishing boats today

A very poor sea watch from the fishing boats this afternoon with AJG:
15.00-16.00
Common Scoter: 29 down    11 up
Gannet: 5 down
Cormorant: 8 around
Kittiwake: 11 down
Sandwich Tern: 38 down
Common Tern: 4 down
Sand Martin: 44 out
Harbour Porpoise: 8+

2 Jersey Tigers and Dark Sword-grass were the highlights from another poor night in the MV.