Saturday 28/09/19

06:30-09:30 with AJG,DW,RW,CP,OL et al
Brent Goose: 1E
Common Scoter: 3E   2W
Great-crested Grebe: 5 around
Balearic Shearwater: 2W
Gannet: 285W
Cormorant: present n/c
Turnstone: 7 around
Arctic Skua: 33W
Sandwich tern: 166W
Razorbill: 9W
Swallow: 158 out
Meadow pipit: 240 in
Linnet: 15 in

 Common Tern showing characteristics of the Eastern race Longipennis above image by Colin Turley

A couple of hours spent in Hanson Hide this afternoon looking at a possible Eastern Common Tern picked out by David Walker.

Also at the ARC 3 Little Gulls, a Black Tern, a Garganey, 3 Cattle Egrets, 3 Black-tailed Godwits, 3 Greenshank and the usual Ducks and Grebes.

 Grass Snake in front of the hide

 Shoveler with nasal band

This Shoveler has returned to the ARC for the last 3 years at least, it's nasal band was put on in Portugal.

 3 noisy Greenshanks from the hide

Common Gull JJ392 on the ARC from Hanson this afternoon

CR-Code White ring with black code: JJ392 LBM;RBWN(JJ392)

Ringing Centre Stavanger Museum (Norway) Ring number 5197815

Species Common Gull  Larus canus 

Sex Unknown Age Pullus

Ringed on 05.07 2018 at  Godalen VGS, Stavanger, Rogaland, Norway  Husebø, Håvard