Migrants!

Male Wheatear at the Observatory this morning

07.20-08.00 from the sea watch hide:
Common Scoter: 16W
Red-throated Diver: 7W   1E
Great-crested Grebe: 4 around
Fulmar: 1W
Gannet: 41W
Cormorant: 72W
Kittiwake: 9W
Sandwich Tern: 1E
Auk sp: 2W
Harbour Porpoise: 1+

Male Wheatear at the Observatory this morning

Male Wheatear by the Moat this morning

A few migrants around this morning, several Chiffchaffs, 3+ Firecrests, 3+ Black Redstarts and the Wheatear. The 2 Whooper Swans still distantly from Cockles Bridge and the 4 Cattle Egrets still around the Sheep fields opposite Green Hop Farm.

 2nd calendar year male Black Redstart at the observatory

1 of 3+ Chiffchaffs in Dengemarsh Gully, probably newly arrived from the Iberia by the amount of what is probably Eucalyptus pollen on its face, also another Firecrest there.

The Little Gull still at Dengemarsh today, though always distant, also Raven over and a Ruff.

Late this afternoon 2 Sand Martins flew through Pigwell.