07/04/2022

A force 8 westerly with clear skies this morning did not bode well for a good sea watch: 

07.30-11.00 with JS, CP, CT, OL

Greylag Goose: 1E

Eider: 1E

Common Scoter: 1043E       27W

Red-throated Diver: 18E 

Great-crested Grebe: 1E  5 on

Fulmar: 3E     7W

Manx Shearwater: 2E      5W

Gannet: 443E     77W 

Cormorant: present n/c

Oystercatcher: 1W

Kittiwake: 17W

Black-headed Gull: present n/c

Common Gull: present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c

Lesser Black-backed Gull: 2W

Sandwich Tern: c10 feeding 

Guillemot: 2W    1E     

Auk sp: 6W     4E

Linnet: 6 in off

Harbour Porpoise: 2

I finally managed to capture all 5 Glossy Ibis together on Boulderwall fields this afternoon, while watching them a male Marsh Harrier caught a Coot at the top end of Cooks Pool where the 3 Cattle Egrets were feeding. A very windswept Burrowes was disappointing. Scotney was also disappointing as there were still no Yellow Wagtails to be found, the first birds are usually around the farm on the 1st.