Fulmar display team past the sea watch hide this morning
With a still quite chilly North Easterly blowing this morning and the time of year it was no surprise that the sea watch was quite slow.
06.00-08.30 with AJG & RW
Shelduck: 2E
Common Scoter: 20E
Fulmar: 1E 3W
Great-crested Grebe: 3E 3on
Gannet: 8E 14W
Cormorant: 16 around
Oystercatcher: 2E
Curlew: 1E
Dunlin: 1E
Kittiwake: 3E 2W
Mediterranean Gull: 5E
Sandwich Tern: 2E 1W
Common Tern: 1E
Auk sp: 1W
Swallow: 1 in
Pied Wagtail: 1 on hide
Black Redstart: 4 female feeding 3 juveniles on compound wall
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 2
Mum and 2 of the 3 juveniles on the perimeter wall this morning
Around the peninsular it was very quiet avian wise, so much so that I even cleaned out the inside of my car, which was so disgusting inside it was an embarrassment.
Black-tailed Godwit still in the hay fields this evening
A walk right round the reserve this evening was pleasant enough but again uninspiring avian wise.
My first Poplar Hawkmoth of the year this morning
Toadflax Brocade a scarce moth in my trap
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