05/03/2021

08:00-09:00 from the end of a bitterly cold Dengemarsh Gully:

Wigeon: 2E

Pintail: 2E

Common Scoter: 1E

Eider: 1W Adult drake

Red-throated Diver: 34E    1W     1 on

Great-crested Grebe: 1W     3 on

Gannet: 293E     14W

Cormorant: present n/c

Kittiwake: 64E

Guillemot: 8E       5on

Auk sp: 159E   43W      7 on

Harbour Porpoise: 2 

2 Great White Egrets were feeding in the Gully and the Rubicola Stonechats was still present, but little else.

There were still c100 Russian White-fronted Geese around the Lydd Fields today

 A walk around the reserve saw of note an adult Yellow-legged Gull roosting on Burrowes, but I missed the Iceland Gull that was seen by OL. Good numbers of Teal on the hay fields and Wigeon on Dengemarsh and Boulderwall but despite careful scrutiny I couldn't find a Garganey. The usual Egrets and Marsh Harriers were seen, plenty of calling Cetti's Warblers but I was unable to find the Glossy ibis.