Sunday, 31 March 2019

First Common Terns of the Year!

 A strong and quite cool NE wind made sea watching the best option today, producing my first Common terns of the year. The only other news on the peninsular was that 2 Cattle Egrets were at Cooks Pool per EH.
Common Terns past the fishing boats this afternoon
06.45-11.00 & 15.00-16.15
Brent Goose: 483E
Teal: 6E
Garganey: 1E
Pintail: 2E
Shoveler: 3E
Common Scoter: 507E   8W
Eider: 1W female
Red-breasted Merganser: 6E
Red-throated Diver: 12E   1 on
Great-crested Grebe: 7 on
Fulmar: 2E
Gannet: 285E.   22W
Cormorant: Present n/c
Oystercatcher: 5E
Curlew: 1E
Kittiwake: 21E     7W
Sandwich Tern: 90E
Common Tern: 5E
Guillemot: 36E  3 on
Carrion Crow: 2 in
Brent Geese past the fishing boats this afternoon
2nd cal year Great Black-backed Gull 15W ringed as a pullus in Normandy
Herring Gull W4VT today which I last saw on the beach on 04/03/2019

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