Tuesday, 18 January 2022

18/01/2022

As I drove along the causeway this morning I passed OL who was staring across the ARC intently, moments later he called me to say that there were 2 Slavonian Grebes there. After I had seen them we made our to the sea watch hide. The 5 mile list moves onto 122.
 09.15-10.15 from the the hide with OL
Brent Goose: 12E
Shoveler: 1E
Wigeon: 27E      3W
Teal: 2W
Red-throated Diver: 123E
Great-crested Grebe: 4 on
Fulmar: 1E
Gannet: 7E
Cormorant: 1,000s feeding just a few mts off shore
Kittiwake: 48E     20 around
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Mediterranean Gull: 1E
Common Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c  single Argentatus on beach
Lesser Black-backed Gull: 2 on beach
Guillemot: 21E     50+ on
Razorbill: 6E     10+ on
Auk sp: 143
2nd calendar year Great Black-backed Gull J37EU ringed as a pullus in Southern Norway on 21/07/2021
1 of 4 Cattle Egrets at Cockles Bridge this morning
Common Buzzard feasting on a Fox carcas
2 of 5 Whooper Swans taken into the low afternoon sun at Baynham Farm

3 of 5 Bewick's Swans taken into the low afternoon sun at Baynham Farm
Mistle Thrush a Dungeness scarcity at Dennes Road this afternoon, there was still 36 Bewick Swans there.
Kestrel with its late lunch
Tree Sparrows from around the marsh

Great Black-backed Gull with a large Eel at Scotney Scotney today. At the back of Scotney but just visible from the double bends a flock of at least 36 White-fronted Geese.
There are at least 3 Green Sandpipers wintering around Scotney
5 of the 7 Cattle Egrets that roosted at the ARC along with the 2 Glossy Ibis

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