06.30-08.00 from the sea watch hide. Many thanks to AJG for supplying the numbers.
Brent Goose: 112 up
Common Scoter: 5 up
Red-throated Diver: 95 up, exactly 100 flew down channel after disturbance by the range boat.
Gannet:17 around
Oystercatcher: 4 up
Kittiwake: 64 up
Guillemot: 89 on sea
At The Patch the 1w Iceland Gull was still in residence along with a couple of Mediterranean Gulls
among the many Herring and great Black-backed Gulls, for the second day running no sign of the regular juvenile Glaucous Gull.
A stroll around the Kerton Road triangle mid morning found 2 Dartford Warblers, 2 Stonechats and 6 Meadow Pipits.
Dartford Warbler at Kerton Road mid morning
Dartford Warbler at Kerton Road mid morning
2 Hares squaring up on the Boulderwall Fields
Late morning on the reserve 3 Smew including a drake and a Great White Egret on Tanners Pool viewed from the entrance track. In the adjacent fields 2 Hares were nice to see and watch. Another 5 Great White Egrets were on Dengemarsh per MH. Only a few Gulls present apart from a couple of readable colour rings there was nothing of any note among them.
1w Iceland Gull
Early afternoon when I arrived back at The Patch the 1w Iceland Gull was still in the roost, a few minutes later it and all the other Gulls were flushed by fisherman who insist on casting there lines out towards the boil, the only up side was they flushed the Iceland Gull towards the hide giving me a nice fly by.
1w Iceland Gull
Brent Goose: 2 up
Red-throated Diver: 46 up
Great-crested Grebe: c150 offshore
Gannet: 4 around
Kittiwake: 17 down
Guillemot: 16 down 2 up
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 1
Juvenile Glaucous Gull on Burrowes late afternoon
Late afternoon on the reserve 2 Marsh Harriers and Great White Egrets flew over the entrance track, on Burrowes the regular juvenile Glaucous Gull was roosting among the Cormorants, 5 Goldeneye could be found among the Pochard and Tufted Duck, still good numbers of Shovelers present.
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