1 of c25 Willow Warblers seen this morning
With a NW 4 blowing this morning I gave the sea watch a miss, instead I spent a couple of hours wandering around The Desert and Trapping Area. A Greenshank over The Desert was probably the highlight, a Great Spotted Woodpecker looked like it was a new arrival as did 2 Collared Doves that appeared to come in off the sea as I was checking the lighthouse garden, c25 each of Willow Warbler and Common Whitethroat were seen and a couple of Lesser Whitethroats were heard. The only Chats were a new brood of Stonechats and 3 Wheatears.
At The Patch lots of Black-headed and Herring Gulls with singles of Kittiwake and Mediterranean Gull, there no Terns of any description there while I was there.
A look at the western end of Scotney found just 2 Common Sandpipers of any note.
Osprey over Burrowes this afternoon viewed from the ARC
Mid afternoon at the ARC c200 Sand Martins and 12 Common Swift flew South during a light shower, an Osprey also flew South over Kerton Road and Burrowes where it hovered the once but appeared to move on quickly. On theARC there are now 2 Black-necked Grebes present among the many eclipse Duck, also 2 Great White Egrets there today.
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