Friday 25/10/19

 Adult Mediterranean Gull gleaming in the early morning light

07.15-09.15 from the fishing boats, many thanks to AJG for collating the numbers:
Common Scoter: 5W
Red-throated Diver: 1E
Great-crested Grebe: 15 o/s
Gannet: 729W
Cormorant: present n/c
Turnstone: 3 on Beach
Great Skua: 1E
Arctic Skua: 4W
Kittiwake: 186W
Little Gull: 1W juvenile
Mediterranean Gull:  27 o/s
Sandwich Tern: 26 o/s
Guillemot: 8W
Razorbill: 66W
Auk sp: 124 o/s
Very few grounded migrants around the peninsular today. Around Dengemarsh Gully a single Swallowon its way south was the I could find there.
On the sward at Scotney I spent a long time scanning back and forth through a flock of c1,000 Golden Plover but could only find 2 Curlew, 3 Ruff and a Turnstone among them, the usual feral geese were present.

 1st calendar year Caspian Gull at the fishing boats this afternoon.

13.30-15.00 from the fishing boats:

Brent Goose: 2W

Common Scoter: 3W

Great-crested Grebe: 13 o/s

Gannet: 56W     20 o/s

Grey Plover: 1W

Arctic skua: 2 o/s

Kittiwake: 41W    23 o/s

Mediterranean Gull: 6o/s

Yellow-legged Gull: 1 1st cal year bird present

Caspian Gull: 1 1st cal year bird un-ringed present

Sandwich tern: 14W    8 o/s

Razorbill: 4W

Auk sp: 41E           9W

2w Caspian Gull in the roost next to the reserve entrance track

On Burrowes the Long-tailed Duck and Red-throated Diver still present but can be amazingly elusive.