Bittern!

05.55-06.55 from the sea watch hide per AJG:
Common Scoter: 2W
Fulmar: 1W
Balearic Shearwater: 1W
Manx Shearwater: 1W
Gannet: 55W
Sandwich Tern: 272W
Common Tern: 34W
Again very quiet avian wise around The Point this morning, a few Common and Lesser Whitethroats, Stonechats and Willow Warblers.

Reed Warbler at Galloways

At Galloways a Pied Flycatcher, a Whinchat, Common Whitethroats, Reed Warbler, Stonechats and the usual fare.

 Bittern from Hanson Hide

 

 At the ARC a Bittern put on a superb if brief showing from Hanson hide. Also there 3 Little Gulls, 2 Greenshanks, 2 Redshanks, 3 Ruff, a Wood Sandpiper, a Common Sandpiper, 2 Dunlin, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Golden Plover, a single Common Snipe, Water Rail, Great White Egret, Little Egret, a Peregrine, 2 Marsh Harriers and 7+ Garganey among all the usual wildfowl.

 Very poor images of a distant leucistic Harbour Porpoise at the fishing boats this afternoon

 13.00-16.00 From the fishing boats with AJG, JTM & JH:
Common Scoter: 2E
Great-crested Grebe: 1W
Gannet: 24W
Cormorant: 9 around
Whimbrel: 2W
Arctic Skua: 1W
Sandwich Tern: 142W
Common Tern: 4W
Black Tern: 9W
Swallow: 4 out
Sand Martin: 36 out
Grey Seal: 2
Harbour Porpoise: 10+ including a Leucistic individual