AJG managed an hour at the fishing boats this morning before giving up.
06:30-07:30
Brent Goose: 4W
Gannet: 6 o/s
Cormorant: 17E
Sparrowhawk: 2E
Ringed Plover: 2W
Dunlin: 8W
Turnstone: 8W
Sandwich Tern 140 down, then 53 back up
Swallow: 4 out
Siskins: several heard not seen
Reed Bunting 2 up
Chiffchaff
Lots of Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps in the bushes around the peninsular this morning, also a decent number of House Martins and Swallows, unseen Siskins seemed to be going over non stop also a few Reed Buntings. The highlight was a party of 12 Crossbills that flew around the observatory that I missed when I was in The Desert. I saw 3 Wheatears, 3 Black Redstarts including a superb male by the lifeboat station and still lots of Stonechats around, but nothing to get too excited about. A Short-eared Owl was hunting behind the sound mirrors per DS.
House Martin about to catch an insect
1st year male Siskin trapped and ringed at the observatory
1st year male Greenfinch in my garden
14.00-15.00 from the fishing boats with AJG,
Great-crested Grebe: 1 o/s
Gannet: 21: o/s
Cormorant: 5 o/s
Sandwich Tern: 89W
Arctic Skua: 1 o/s DP
Swallow: 217 out
House Martin: 1 out
Harbour porpoise: 5+
Surely now the weather is changing the sea will start producing birds!
Silhouette of the Glossy Ibis late afternoon
The ARC late afternoon was very quiet, though the Glossy Ibis is still present, 6 Common Snipe, a Black-tailed Godwit and a single Black-necked Grebe along with the usual wildfowl and Herons.
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