30/03/2022

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.

Polish ringed 2nd calendar year Caspian Gull P:WJ7 at the fishing boats this afternoon, attracted by David and Jasons stale bread.

Fighting over a pebble

Would have been my favourite pic of the Caspian Gull had I not chopped its wing tip