A sea watch yesterday with CP from the fishing boats in appalling weather conditions produced plenty of Guillemots, Razorbills, Red-throated Divers, Gannets, Kittiwakes and of course Cormorants but little else.
At the ARC in the rain these 3 Green Woodpeckers were probably the highlight.
Green Woodpeckers at the ARC
Black-throated Diver
Plenty of walking today eventually resulted in superb views of the long staying Black-throated Diver on the New Diggings in the lovely sunshine. A search of the ARC for the Dusky Warbler drew a blank, though party of 8 Bearded Tits were good compensation, all the usual wildfowl were present but still no Smew. A Kestrel was posing as I walked through the car park, in the Brambles a Firecrest and a Chiffchaff were feeding. 200+ Russian White-fronted Geese flew over and settled in the fields at Cockles Bridge, unfortunately not for long as 1 of the peninsulars guardians of the countryside soon arrived to chase off them off again. I don't know why they won't settle with the 100s of feral geese at Scotney where they would at least get some peace.
Black-throated Diver
Kestrel
A flock of 200+ Russian White-fronted Geese
Raven over the field in front of my house
Late afternoon at Scotney a Kingfisher sat in the orange glow of the setting sun, a drake and and duck Scaup were still on the eastern back lake along with the Long-tailed Duck. On the sward, 1,000+ each of Lapwing and Golden Plover along with 100s each of Wigeon and feral geese but I could find no wild birds among them.
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