14/04/2022

With dense fog just offshore todays sea watch was unsurprisingly very poor.

07.30-08.30with DW et al

Common Scoter: 9E 

Great-crested Grebe: 3 on

Gannet: 56E 

Cormorant: present n/c

Oystercatcher: 1E 1W

Black-headed Gull: present n/c

Mediterranean Gull: 4E 2W

Common Gull: present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c

Sandwich Tern: 21E

Harbour Porpoise: 35

A long wander around the back of Scotney lakes found my first Yellow Wagtails of the year, several each of Corn Bunting and Wheatear, 10+ Tree Sparrows, 18 Avocets, many Skylarks, Ravens, Peregrine, Marsh Harriers, Common Buzzards, many Mediterranean Gulls and a bonus of my first ever Bearded Tit at this site.

Corn Bunting

Wheatear

The resident female Kestrel prospecting her usual nest site

The resident Black Swan

On Boulderwall Fields this afternoon 4 Cattle Egrets, several Sedge Warblers and a Reed Warbler. Around the hay fields at least 2 Glossy Ibis and a drake Garganey, several Bearded Tits, Bittern, more Sedge and Reed Warblers.

More of yesterdays superb Red-breasted Flycatcher