28/05/2021

 

Wheatear

Incoming

06.00-08.00 &10.30-11.00 with AJG & PS

Shelduck: 7E

Common Scoter: 211E     41W

Great- crested Grebe: 1E   2 on

Fulmar: 5W  1E

Gannet: 2W    22E

Cormorant: 7 on

Oystercatcher: 2W

Kittiwake: 21W

Common Tern: 22E

Sandwich Tern: 12E

Common Tern: 22E

Guillemot: 3E

Puffin: 1E (with 3 Guillemots))

Auk sp: 13E

Swallow: 7 in

Black Redstarts: 4 behind hide  ( 3 juvs being fed)

Wheatear: 1on sea watch hide.  new in?

Grey Seal: 1

Harbour Porpoise: 6+

The Puffin was obviously the best bird of the watch, I did get a little distracted when 5 RIBs full of refugees appeared off shore.

An hours walk around the trapping area found no obviously new migrants apart from the odd Swallow heading in land.

Female Yellow Wagtail

A wander around the reserve the last night saw several pairs of Yellow Wagtails, 9 Corn Buntings, 10 Common Terns, a Whimbrel, a Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Ringed Plover, 10 Redshank,  a Kingfisher, several Bearded Tits and a booming Bittern. 

Whimbrel

Black-tailed Godwit

A little trip just off the peninsular yesterday found a couple of purring Turtle Doves