First Balearics of the Autumn! (Wednesday 7th August)

06.30-08.30 from the sea watch hide with RW & AJG who kindly collated the numbers:
Common Scoter: 1W   4E 
Fulmar: 6W
Balearic Shearwater: 2W
Gannet: 433W
Oystercatcher: 1W
Whimbrel: 1W
Great Skua: 1W
Kittiwake: 34 down
Mediterranean Gull: 2W both juv/1w
Sandwich Tern: 79W
Common Tern: 312W
Sand Martin: 2 out
Harbour Porpoise: 5+
At The Patch were 2 Mediterranean Gulls and 4 Black Redstarts.
3 visits to the ARC where of note 8 Wood Sandpipers, 4 Common Sandpipers, 4 Ruff, 1 Greenshank, 4 Dunlin, 3 Little Ringed Plovers,1 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Garganey, 2 Little Gulls, 100s of Sand Martins and the usual eclipse wildfowl.

 Adult Yellow-legged gull on the beach this afternoon

13.30-15.30 with RW, JTM & AJG.
Great-crested Grebe: 1 around
Fulmar: 1W
Gannet: 5E   13W
Cormorant: 14 around
Redshank: 3W
Knot: 1W
Dunlin: 5W
Mediterranean Gull: 2E Juv/1w
Yellow-legged Gull: 2   adult + juvenile
Sandwich Tern: 97W.    12E
Common Tern: 23W
Sand Martin: 21 out
Harbour Porpoise: 5
Grey Seal: 1
Common Seal: 1

Juvenile Yellow-legged gull on the beach this afternoon

2nd cal yr Great black-backed Gull JK889 on the beach this afternoon

 Ringing Details

1 of 3 Juvenile cattle Egrets in the Boulderwall fields this afternoon

2 Sanderling among 10 Dunlin, 5 Common Sandpipers, 3 Common Snipe, a Sandwich tern and c100 Common Terns from Firth this evening.

 2 of the 3 Common Snipe at firth this evening

Scalloped Hook-tip a common moth but only the second to be attracted to my trap