A mild dull start to the day with a stiff SSE wind, but mainly dry.
07.30-09.30 from the sea watch hide with AJG who kindly collated the numbers:
Wigeon: 5W
Red-throated Diver: 3W 8E
Great-crested Grebe: 7 W into Rye Bay
Gannet: 514E
Cormorant: present n/c
Arctic Skua: 1E
Skua sp: 2E
Kittiwake: 8W 109E
Little Gull: 1E
Sandwich Tern: 1W
Guillemot: 57E
Razorbill: 19E
Auk sp: 178E 24W
Harbour Porpoise: 2
Stopping off at Boulderwall Fields on my way home for breakfast saw the 3 Cattle Egrets and a Great White Egret on Cooks Pool, while in the fields 11 Black-tailed Godwits, 7 Ruff and c50 Golden Plover of note.
12.45-16.00 I spent on the reserve looking at Gulls finding 11 Caspian Gulls, 6 adults which included a red ringed Polish bird, a yellow ringed German bird and a North Thames ringed bird, also 2 x 3w and 3 x 1w birds and at least 6 Yellow-legged Gulls.
07.30-09.30 from the sea watch hide with AJG who kindly collated the numbers:
Wigeon: 5W
Red-throated Diver: 3W 8E
Great-crested Grebe: 7 W into Rye Bay
Gannet: 514E
Cormorant: present n/c
Arctic Skua: 1E
Skua sp: 2E
Kittiwake: 8W 109E
Little Gull: 1E
Sandwich Tern: 1W
Guillemot: 57E
Razorbill: 19E
Auk sp: 178E 24W
Harbour Porpoise: 2
Stopping off at Boulderwall Fields on my way home for breakfast saw the 3 Cattle Egrets and a Great White Egret on Cooks Pool, while in the fields 11 Black-tailed Godwits, 7 Ruff and c50 Golden Plover of note.
12.45-16.00 I spent on the reserve looking at Gulls finding 11 Caspian Gulls, 6 adults which included a red ringed Polish bird, a yellow ringed German bird and a North Thames ringed bird, also 2 x 3w and 3 x 1w birds and at least 6 Yellow-legged Gulls.
Adult Caspian Gull bearing a North Thames ring marked G0UT
Life history of Great Black-backed Gull JK899 on the reserve this afternoon.
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