An excellent mornings sea watching from the fishing boats, with passerines streaming over.
07.00-11.00 with AJG, CP, DS,MH
Brent Goose: 9W
Teal: 2W
Wigeon: 14W
Common Scoter: 245W
Red-breasted Merganser: 1W
Red-throated Diver: 3W 1 on sea
Great-crested Grebe: 7 o/s
Sooty Shearwater: 1W (DS & MH only)
Gannet: 149W
Grey Heron 6 coasting down(c1 to 2 miles out)
Ringed Plover: 3W
Turnstone: 2 on beach
Sanderling: 28W
Curlew: 1W
Great Skuas: 1W
Arctic Skua: 6 o/s
Kittiwake: 4W
Little Gull: 9W
Mediterranean Gull: 36W/feeding o/s
Common Gull: 17W
Lesser Black-backed Gull: 6W
Sandwich Tern: 84W/feeding o/s
Guillemot: 2W
Razorbill: 59W
Auk sp: 103W 7E
Swallows: 582 mainly out though some appeared to come in
House Martin: 26 out
Alba Wagtail: 21SW
Skylark: 26 out 4 in
Meadow Pipit: c600 SW
Starlings: 520 in
Goldfinch: 185 SW
Linnet: 115 SW
Siskin: 2 SW
Common Seal: 1
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 2
While we were sea watching OL,DW, JTM & JD were working the trapping area with some success, A Serin and a Woodlark over per DW, a lapland Bunting over per OL, Firecrests and Ring Ouzels per JTM & JD.
The German colour ring 1w Caspian Gull at the fishing boats again today
14.15-15.15 from the fishing boats with AJG & OLBrent Goose: 3W
Common Scoter: 6W
Red-breasted Merganser: 2W
Great-crested Grebe: 13 o/s
Red-throated diver: 5W
Gannet: c30 o/s
Arctic Skua: 4 o/s
Kittiwake: 3W
Little Gull: 2W
Black-headed Gull: 153W
Mediterranean Gull: 14W
Common Gull: 28W
Caspian Gull: 1 on beach
Sandwich tern: 36W
Guillemot: 1W 3 o/s
Razorbill: 2W
Auk sp: 17E 6W
Swallow: 32 out
Hummingbird Hawkmoth 1 in off
The 1w Caspian Gull resting at the Fish Shack roost late afternoon.
The reserve remains quiet with highlights being Great White, Cattle and Little Egrets, daily sightings of Bittern, a Red-throated Diver on Burrowes also Garganey there with another on the ARC.
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