22/10/2021

Arctic Tern feeding in front the power station

This mornings sea watch from the hide and The Patch

08.00-10.30

Gadwall: 3W

Common Scoter: 2W   1E

Red-throated Diver: 1W   1E   2 on

Great-crested Grebe: 5 around

Gannet: 14W

Cormorant: 159W

Kittiwake: 4W

Black-headed Gull: c500 around

Mediteranean Gull: c50 around

Common Gull: c100

Herring Gull: c500 around

Great Black-backed Gull: 62W   

Lesser Black-backed Gull: 6 around

Sandwich Tern: 14W

Arctic Tern: 1 around

Great Skua: 1W

Arctic Skua: 5W   2 around c50 around

Meadow Pipit: c20W

Goldfinch: c60W

Arctic Tern feeding in front the power station

Arctic Tern feeding in front the power station

On the reserve still at least 8 Cattle Egrets along with the usual Great and Little Egrets, the 2 Glossy Ibis are still around , today they did a mega high circuit of the Peninsular enabling me to add them to my garden list. On Burrowes apart from Lapwing and Golden Plover I didn't see another wader, large numbers of Greylags were on the islands and seem ed to have displaced the Wigeon and Pintail, I was also unable to locate the Garganey that was present yesterday. A walk around the hay fields this afternoons saw the usual Egrets but not the hoped for Water Pipits and waders even though the fields look very good for them. Several parties of Bearded Tits were either seen or heard in the surrounding ditches and reed beds.

Scotney held all the usual feral geese, also c1,000 Lapwing and c500 Golden Plover  but little else of note. 

The 2 Glossy Ibis now on the garden list albeit rather distant

A Garganey on Burrowes yesterday afternoon

 Marsh Harrier with orange wing tags marked SX which I photographed late yesterday afternoon. She was ringed and tagged on 05/07/2021 as a chick at Carlton Marshes, Suffolk and this is the first time she has been seen since being tagged. Many thanks to Phil Littler of NWNRG for sending me her details so promptly.