New brood of Tufted Duck on the ARC this morning

First thing during the rain at the ARC 5 Wood Sandpipers, 4 Common Sandpipers, 6 Dunlin, 4 Ruff, 2 Little Gulls, 2 Garganey, 2 Water Rail chicks, the usual wildfowl, also 100s of Sand Martins hawking over the lake with a few Swifts.

Young Coot tasting a dead Perch this morning at Firth

From Firth Hide 5 Dunlin, 4 Common Sandpipers, 2 Knot and a Turnstone.
09.15-10.15 from the sea watch hide with OL and AJG who collated the numbers:
Common Scoter: 12W   3E
Fulmar: 2W
Gannet: 34W   9E
Oystercatcher: 1E
Whimbrel: 1W
Kittiwake: 3W
Mediterranean Gull: 1E
Yellow-legged Gull: 1 juvenile around
Sandwich tern: 2W
Common tern: 25W
Harbour Porpoise: 2+

The first reurning Turnstones at the fishing boats.

13.30-15.30 from the fishing boats with RW, JTM, AJG, PT:
Common Scoter: 3W
Gannet: 5W
Cormorant: 6 around
Turnstone: 5 around
Kittiwake: 1W
Yellow-legged Gull: 3 Juveniles around
Sandwich tern: 2E.  5W
Common tern: 18W
Swift: 18 out
Sand Martin: 9 out

 Juvenile Yellow-legged Gulls