15/10/2020

07.00-109.00 & 14.45-15.45 from the fishing boats with SP and AJG who collated the numbers:

Dark-bellied Brent Goose: 75W     95E

Shelduck: 18E

Wigeon: 34W.   13E

Teal: 3E

Pochard: 1W drake

Eider: 1W drake

Common Scoter: 7W    19E

Red-throated Diver: 3E  

Gannet: 81W    14 o/s

Cormorant: present n/c

Oystercatcher: 1E

Knot: 1E

Curlew: 1E

Kittiwake: 2E

Black-headed Gull: present n/c

Mediterranean Gull: 4E

Common Gull: present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Lesser Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Sandwich Tern: 42E

Arctic Skua: 5o/s

Razorbill: 6W

Auk sp: 16W   12E

Swallow: 12N

Wheatear: 1 on beach

Carrion Crow: 35N

Starling: 370 in

Grey Wagtail: 1N

Alba Wagtail: 10N     6 on beach

Rock Pipit: 3 N

Chaffinch: 240N

Lesser Redpoll: 30N

Goldfinch: 1445N

Siskin: 25N

Grey Seal: 1

Harbour Porpoise: 1+

Superb male Black Redstart by the trapping area this morning

A walk around The Desert and bushes saw 4+ Black Redstarts, 3+ Ring Ouzels, lots of Song Thrushes and Redwing, 3 Fieldfare, many Goldfinches, Siskins, Redpolls, Chaffinches and Goldcrests, small numbers of Meadow Pipits, Skylarks,  Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps, 2 Crossbills, 8 Swallows. Rock Pipits, also the resident Stonechats, another Wheatear and the residents. A Yellow-browed Warbler was seen in the trapping area. 

Ring Ouzel by the Long Pits this morning

Early afternoon at Herons Park a Yellow Wagtail and a few more Thrushes and Chiffchaffs but still no eastern sprite.

Jack Snipe bobbing at the ARC this afternoon

Late afternoon I flushed a Jack Snipe at the back of the ARC, very shortly afterwards I got a call from DW to say he was watching the above Jack Snipe c200 yds from where I flushed one, the same or another? very nice to see one on the ground though.