Saturday 14/12/2019

07:30-09:30 from the sea watch hide RW and AJG who kindly collated the numbers:
Red-breasted Merganser: 2W
Red-throated Diver: 36W
Great-crested Grebe: 8 o/s
Fulmar: 4W
Gannet: 930W
Cormorant: 1,750W into Rye bay
Kittiwake: 78W
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Mediterranean Gull: 1W
Common Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Lesser Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Guillemot: 27W    2E
Razorbill: 3W
Auk sp: 24W
From the manure heap in Dengemarsh Road near the entrance to the go-cart track, the 2 Whooper Swans can be seen distantly usually among the Mute Swans.
The Boulderwall Fields were again this morning covered in Lapwing, Golden Plover, Wigeon and feral Geese, once again being flushed intermittently by Marsh Harriers.

 1w Little Gull Caldecott Lane

A drive out the back of Lydd failed to find any Bewick Swans, a few Fieldfare were in Caldecott Lane, also a 1w Little Gull hawking over the fields.

1w Little Gull Caldecott Lane

This afternoon I joined Richard at Burrowes where 3 Caspian Gulls were seen, a 1w + 2w and an adult that refused to come out of the water so I could read the yellow ring it was sporting, also an adult Yellow-legged Gull, 16 Black-tailed Godwits came into roost. At around 15.30 the Gulls started to come in onto the close islands at Firth, but as usual a Marsh Harrier came over and flushed them all, with the light rapidly going we left.