Tuesday 29/10/2019

07.30-09.30 from the sea watch hide with GS & AJG who kindly collated the numbers:
Brent Goose: 2,632W     43E
Snow Goose: 1W presumably a feral bird
Shelduck: 5W     26E
Gadwall: 2W
Wigeon: 144W    26E
Teal: 10W
Shoveler: 13W
Common Scoter: 154W
Red-breasted Merganser: 12W     1E
Red-throated Diver: 6W
Great-crested Grebe: 6 o/s
Gannet 84 around
Great Skua: 1E
Kittiwake: 14W    10 o/s
Mediterranean Gull: 4 o/s
Sandwich Tern: 3W
Razorbill: 16W
Auk Sp: 70 down
Skylark: 9 in
Starling: 53 in
Parking by the lighthouse there were 2 Firecrests flitting around in the gloom on the sheltered side of the garden.

 While having breakfast late morning the regular male Sparrowhawk came on to the fence in the hope of another Goldfinch.

The rear end of a Stone Curlew, honest!

John Young found a Stone Curlew on the shingle between the Water Tower and the concrete mirrors an excellent find, unfortunately it was very flighty and I never saw it on the ground, though Colin Turley managed some excellent digiscope images, after I had left to see the Shorelark found by David Walker at the fishing boats puddles which was another disaster. I parked beside Davids car and saw the Shorelark c10mts in front of me, I lifted my binoculars to look at it, just as a fisherman drove round the corner flushing the bird and all I could do was to watch it fly off into the distance out of sight! Time for another sea watch.

13.25-14.25 from the fishing boats:
Brent Goose: 165W
Common Scoter: 3E
Great-crested Grebe: 6 o/s
Gannet: c40 feeding off shore
Great Skua: 1E
Kittiwake: c30 feeding off shore
Little Gull: 4 feeding off shore
Razorbill: 2W
Auk sp: 133W
Grey Seal: 1

Harbour Porpoise: 2