Sunday, 26 September 2021

26/09/2021

Guillemot
Migrant RIB arriving this morning, evading all Border Force Vessels and millions of £s of technology. 😂
By the time these 3 Border Force vessels and millions arrived the migrant RIB had already landed
07.00-09.30 from the fishing boats with AJG who kindly collated the numbers:
Common Scoter: 16W
Sooty Shearwater: 2W
Gannet: 207W
Merlin: 1 hunting off shire
Kittiwake: 9W
Mediterranean Gull: 3W
Sandwich Tern: 131W
Arctic Skua : 3W
Razorbill: 1W
Guillemot: 4W
Auk sp: 2W
House Martin: c25W
Swallow: 61W
Apart from a few Chiffchaffs and Blackcaps in the bushes the dearth of passerines continues.
Arctic Skua

Arctic Skua 
13.30-16.00 from the fishing boats with NB, JB, DB, AJG, OL, & RW who kindly kept the log:
Brent Goose: 1W
Common Scoter: 2E    45W
Red-throated diver: 1W
Great-crested Grebe: 1E
Manx Shearwater: 2W
Balearic Shearwater: 1W
Gannet: 137W
Cormorant: 8E  22W
Curlew: 1W
Kittiwake: c200 loafing offshore
Mediterranean Gull: 2E  12W
Sandwich Tern: 258W
Common Tern: 3W
Arctic Skua & Sandwich Terns
Manx Shearwater
Common Scoter
Common Tern
No sign of the Black Tern on the ARC today, 2 Garganey and the Black-necked Grebe still present there. 
On the reserve in the fields still at least 8 Cattle Egrets, the Glossy Ibis the usual Great and Little Egrets and a few Yellow Wagtails of note. Burrowes held up to 3 Ruff, 8 Knot, 15, Dunlin, 50+ Golden Plover, a flock of c20 Ringed Plovers flew through as did a single Sandwich Tern.
Cattle Egret
Great White Egret
Four-spotted Footman
Delicate
 

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