Gannets passing the bouy this morning
A cool gloomy drizzly morning with just a little easterly movement
07.50-09.50 From the sea watch hide:
Brent Goose : 382E (13 parties)
Shelduck: 2E
Pochard: 1E drake
Common Scoter: 20E 1W
Red-breasted Merganser: 4E
Red-throated Diver: 19E
Great-crested Grebe: 1E 2 on
Fulmar: 1W
Gannet: 71E
Cormorant: 13 around
Kittiwake: 1E
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Common Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c
Sandwich Tern: 18E
Guillemot: 3E
Razorbill: 1E
Auk sp: 5E
Common Seal: 1
Grey Seal: 1
One of the 13 small flocks of Brent Geese that passed East this morning
Garganey on the Hay Fields today
A brisk walk from Springfield Bridge in the hope of some Yellow Wagtails and Sand Martins failed on both counts, likewise a look at Scotney.
The smart Ruff still present
Yesterdays Avocet on the hay fields
At the fishing boats this afternoon a few Red-throated divers flew East, also a Little Gull, but the star was a posing 2nd calendar year Caspian Gull ringed in Poland.
Fighting over a pebble
Would have been my favourite pic of the Caspian Gull had I not chopped its wing tip
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