Black Tern!

First Black Tern of the year with a Common Tern

A thoroughly miserable cold day with constant rain and fog in light NE wind.
08.15-11.15, 12.00-13.30, 15.00-16.30 with AJG,OL,JTM & DW.
Brent Goose: 258E
Shelduck: 9E
Shoveler: 2W
Teal: 12E
Pintail: 2E
Common Scoter: 316E    17W
Red-breasted Merganser: 18E
Red-throated Diver: 3E
Great-crested Grebe: 15 on 1E
Fulmar: 3W
Gannet: 533E     45W
Cormorant: Present n/c
Oystercatcher: 4E
Grey Plover: 1E
Ringed Plover: 1W   1E
Curlew: 2E
Whimbrel: 14E
Dunlin: 12E
Arctic Skua: 1E
Mediterranean Gull: 10E
Common Gull: 54E
Kittiwake: 2E   1W
Little Tern: 1E
Black Tern: 1E
Sandwich Tern: 135E    9W
Common Tern: 491E
Arctic Tern: 2E
Guillemot: 1E   4w
Auk sp: 1 on
Ring Ouzel: 1 in NEARLY! Taken by a Great Black-backed Gull!
Harbour Porpoise:20+
The Common Crane was still at Dengemarsh today and 2 Cattle Egrets were in the Horse Paddock first thing this morning. On Burrowes the Red-necked Grebe was still present, a Garganey and Red-breasted Merganser were new, a steady trickle of Swallows moved north.