01/03/2022

This flock of Brent flew past the fishing boats at 15.28, gives you an idea of what the visibility was like today. I make it 104 birds.

A thoroughly miserable day on the peninsula, the sea watch reflecting the poor visibility.

 07.30-09.30 with OL
Shelduck: 3 E
Common Scoter: 6W
Red-throated Diver: 37E   2W     
Great-crested Grebe:  41W     5E        3 on   
Fulmar: 2E    1W
Gannet: 24E     68W     
Cormorant: Present n/c
Kittiwake:  27E   72W  
Little Gull: 1W adult 
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Common Gull: present n/c
Mediterranean Gull: 1W  
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c 
Lesser Black-backed Gull: 2E
Guillemot: 11E  9W
Razorbill: 9W
Auk sp: 27E   81W      
Harbour Porpoise: 2

A late morning visit to Burrowes was predictably disappointing in the miserable weather, I only went to Dennis's Hide so could only guess what might have been at the Makepiece end of the lake.

It didn't look as though any of the visitors who said they prefer lookouts to hides visited the reserve today, unless they all arrived on foot as the car park was empty, except for staff vehicles and 1 couple who also only visited Dennis's Hide. 

1 of the Cockles Bridge 4 appears to have an injury?

2 Red-legged Partridges were a bonus at Cockles Bridge this afternoon

THE or 1 of the Iceland Gulls at The Patch this afternoon