Tern Raft!

A shame to see the expensive shiny new Tern Raft on Burrowes Pit already has a pair of Herring Gulls mating on it, hopefully they will moved so as to avoid a repeat of last year, when a pair Herring Gulls nested on a Tern raft at Dengemarsh with 14 pairs of Common Terns, the Gulls seemingly waited for Terns to hatch then used the Tern chicks as a fast food restaurant wiping out all of them. Most of the islands on Burrowes have already been taken by Herring Gulls so it would be a tragedy to let them take the purpose built Tern raft.

05.00-07.30 & 14.15-15.45 with AJG who kindly collated the numbers also RW & OL.
Common Scoter: 72E
Red-throated Diver: 1E
Great-crested Grebe: 15 around
Fulmar: 1W  1E
Manx Shearwater: 1E  1W
Gannet: 17E   8W 68 around
Hobby: 1 in
Oystercatcher: 7E
Dunlin: 9E
Sanderling: 8E
Ringed Plover: 1E
Great Skua: 1E
Pomarine Skua: 2E  @ 06.10
Arctic Skua: 3E
Kittiwake:19E
Sandwich Tern: 517E
Common/Arctic Tern: 343E
Auk sp: 2E. 1w
Harbour Porpoise: 10+ around
Grey Seal: 1
From Dennis's Hide 11 Curlew, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits, a Grey Plover, 2 Redshank and a Little Gull.
Later a drake Garganey was found at Makepiece, while Dengemarsh hosted 4+ Hobby's.