A relatively close Balearic Shearwater over a stormy sea today
A very enjoyable day was spent mostly sea watching in the relative comfort of the sea watching hide and the shelter of the fishing boats, trying to pick out passing Shearwaters and Skuas among the many Sandwich Terns and Gannets.
07.00-09.00 & 13.00-17.00 with AJG, RW, JTM, OL, CT, MF & DW
Common Scoter: 9W 4E
Red-throated Diver: 1W
Great-crested Grebe: 2 around
Fulmar: 1W
Sooty Shearwater: 2W
Balearic Shearwater: 7W 1E
Shearwater sp: 4W
Gannet: 752W
Cormorant: present n/c
Dunlin: 2W
Great Skua: 10w 1E
Arctic Skua: 72W
Kittiwake: 1W
Sandwich Tern: 1,033W
Common Tern: 11W
Guillemot: 1W
Auk sp: 15W 8E
Swift: 1 out
Swallow: 129 out
Harbour Porpoise: 2+
Grey Seal: 1+
Cattle Egrets from Hanson late morning
A late morning visit to Hanson Hide found 2 Greenshank, a Ruff, a Dunlin, 2 Common Snipe, a Little Gull, 2 Black Terns, a Garganey, 2 Cattle Egrets, a Great White Egret, squealing Water Rails, 5 Pintail, 100s of Hirundines and the usual wildfowl.
Garganey from Hanson this morning
Little Gull from Hanson this morning
A damp Wheatear by the track to the VC
On Burrowes 2 Common Sandpipers, 5 Dunlin, a Black-necked Grebe and more squealing Water Rails were noted.
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