Common Crane!

Herring Gull with a Tennis ball at the fishing boats

A day of strong North Easterly winds blasting across the peninsular :
06.40-08.40 &14.40-16.00
Brent Goose: 22E
Teal: 4E
Wigeon: 4E
Shoveler: 4E
Common Scoter: 54E   15W
Red-breasted Merganser: 11E
Red-throated Diver: 40E.  3 on
Great-crested Grebe: 16 on
Fulmar: 4E
Gannet: 281E
Cormorant: 9 around
Oystercatcher: 3E
Curlew: 1E
Kittiwake: 24E
Sandwich tern: 160E
Common tern: 2E
Guillemot: 20E
Auk sp: 22E
Harbour Porpoise: 8+
Grey Seal: 1

Great Black-backed Gull JR204 ringed on 28.06 2018 at Abalholmen, Mandal, Vest-Agder, Norway

Another awful image of a Water Pipit

A single Water Pipit was in the hay field behind Xmas Dell this morning, 3 Bearded Tits were in the adjacent ditches along with several Reed Buntings. A Swallow was seen from the entrance track.

A walk from the new lighthouse to the lifeboat and back produced of note 12 Wheatears but little else in the strong winds. 2 more Wheatears were in the NE corner of The Desert. At a very windswept Scotney the feral Barnacle Goose flock is still present, but the sward has dried out so no waders seen.

Common Crane on the Boulderwall Fields

This evening a Common Crane flew into the Boulderwall Fields giving distant views into the setting sun, but also allowed me to add it to the from the garden year list. The 3 Cattle Egrets were on Cooks Pool this evening.