A Sanderling that landed on the beach with some Turnstones this afternoon.
Most of my day was spent sea watching at the fishing boats. Only Sam and myself were present when the Leach's Petrel came by quite close, frustratingly I'd left my camera in the car this morning due to the inclement weather, but hopefully Sam got some images. The Pale-bellied Brent Goose was also close and I'm sure Sam got some nice images of that. The afternoon watch was notable for the 23 Arctic Skuas that moved through ahead of a rain front.
3 Sea watches today 06.50-08.20 & 09.00-11.00 & 14.00-16.30 with at various times AJG, SP, JY, SG, MH, DW.
Dark-bellied Brent Goose: 3WPale-bellied Brent Goose: 1W
Teal: 1W
Common Scoter: 6W 7E
Leach's Petrel: 1W
Great-crested Grebe: 11W. 15o/s
Gannet: 936W
Curlew: 1W
Turnstone: 7 o/s
Sanderling: 1W
Dunlin: 7W
Kittiwake: 2W
Mediterranean Gull: 1W
Yellow-legged Gull: 1o/s
Sandwich Tern: 274W
Common Tern: 14W
Great Skua: 1W
Arctic Skua: 26W 4 o/s
Guillemot: 2W
Razorbill: 13W
Auk sp: 27W
Swallow: 371S
House Martin: 26S
Pied wagtail: 6W
Linnet: 75W
Goldfinch: 12W
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 3+
Common Tern past the fishing boats this afternoon
This week there have been at least 6 Yellow-browed Warblers on the peninsular of which I saw none,
the same with Short-eared Owls and I also missed a Stone Curlew.😢 There have been very few Thrushes so far this Autumn, I have only seen 2 Redwing and c30 Song Thrushes, though a couple of Ring Ouzels have been seen. JY has seen Lapland Buntings on a couple of occasions at the back of Lydd airport but has been unable to pin them down.
Sam and Lottie watched the Egret roost at the ARC this evening where 11 Great White Egrets, 6 Cattle Egrets, 12 Little Egrets and the 2 Glossy Ibis's came in to roost. Good numbers of Siskins, Redpolls, Goldfinches, Linnets, Swallows and House Martins have been moving through this week along with a couple of Swifts and a Woodlark.
Hummingbird Hawkmoth in the garden lunchtime
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