Sunday 23/08/2020

Bar-tailed Godwits and a Whimbrel passing the fishing boats this afternoon

05.40-07.40 & 14.00-15.45 with RW, CP, JH, PH, LH and AJG who kindly kept the log:

Common Scoter: 1W

Great-crested Grebe: 2 o/s

Fulmar: 1W

Gannet: 82W

Cormorant: 16 o/s

Whimbrel: 1W

Bar-tailed Godwit: 3W

Turnstone: 1E

Knot: 1W

Dunlin: 1E

Arctic Skua: 2W

Kittiwake: 6W

Little Tern: 8W

Sandwich Tern: 373W

Common Tern: 150W

Swift:2 out

Sand Martin: 8 out

Swallow: 2 out

Grey Seal: 1 

Harbour Porpoise: 2+

Whimbrel passing the fishing boats this afternoon

Knot passing the fishing boats this afternoon

On The ARC the Glossy Ibis still present along with a Wood Sandpiper, 6 Black-tailed Godwits, 6 Common Sandpipers, 4 Dunlin, 2 LRPs, a Ringed Plover, 19 Golden Plover, 2 Garganey, a Little Gull, 2 Great White Egrets, also the Black-necked Grebe reported today. This morning the lake was covered with 100s of Sand Martins. The only report I have heard from Burrowes is of 2 Black Terns still being present, but with no proper access the paucity of reports is understandable.

 Felixstowe ringed juvenile Lesser Black-backed Gull DV.DR at the fishing boats yesterday