17/05/2021

O5.30-08.30 with AJG

Brent Goose: 5W

Common Scoter: 154E

Fulmar: 4W   3E

Great-crested Grebe: 2W      5 around

Grey Heron: 2W

Oystercatcher: 1W     6E

Kittiwake: 53W

Sandwich tern: 6E

Great Skua: 1E

Guillemot: 9W

Auk sp: 4W

Swift: 55 in

Swallow: 43 in

Harbour Porpoise: 6+

Grey Seal: 2

After rather a poor sea watch I checked out the lakes looking for scarcer Hirundines or Swift as there was a steady arrival of Common Swifts this morning, surprisingly there were very few Hirundines hawking over the lakes or anything much else. 

I was about to have a late breakfast when DW called to say he had found a singing Melodious Warbler in the trapping area. When I arrived it was only a short wait before it sang again and showed itself very briefly several times so no images, but I did get a recording of it singing, see the video below.

This afternoon the rain was virtually non stop and late this afternoon I got my second Covid jab.

The singing Melodious Warbler in the trapping area today, turn the volume up.

 

Common Buzzard at the south end of the ARC this morning

Hobby waiting for the insects to start flying this morning

Brent Goose in the hay fields this evening

Great-crested Grebe on Burrowes

Red Fox scavenging at the new Scott view point

Gem from the MV trap yesterday

A Light Feathered Rustic in the MV trap this morning

The Dengemarsh concrete man