10/03/2022

3 Mallard with 2 Common Scoter passing this morning not an everyday occurrence here

A busy start to the sea watch which quickly petered out :

06.00-10.00 from the hide with JS, CP, PT, OL

Brent Goose: 431E (14 flocks)

Mallard: 3E

Teal: 12E

Pintail: 11E  (2+4+5)

Common Scoter: 132E       3W

Red-throated Diver: 141E    1 on

Great-crested Grebe: 5E    17 on 

Fulmar: 2E  

Gannet: 31E

Cormorant: present n/c

Oystercatcher: 29E     4W

Kittiwake: 299E   

Black-headed Gull: 67E

Mediterranean Gull: 2E

Common Gull: 26E

Great Black-backed Gull: 28E

Herring Gull: present n/c

Sandwich Tern: 3E

Guillemot: 66E

Auk sp: 557E

Skylark: 1E

Harbour Porpoise: 2

Considering several 100s of Oystercatchers can be seen the other side of The Point in Lade Bay,  only  small numbers actually pass the sea watching hide.

Ringed Plover and Dunlin on Dengemarsh Flood

On the hayfields today there were 6 Dunlin, 4 Ringed Plovers, a Great White Egret and booming Bittern by the pump.

At Cockles Bridge there was a Little Egret with 5 Cattle Egrets. Also another near summer plumaged Cattle Egret in the Horse Paddock. Apart from a Black Redstart at the fishing boats (JS) little else was seen on the peninsula today.