13/03/2023

If you take away the Brent Geese numbers today was a very modest sea watch considering the wind was force 7-9 South Westerly.

07.10 - 10.00 from the hide with RW, OL. 

Brent Goose: 953E  in 15 parties

Shoveler: 3W

Teal: 3E  1W

Common Scoter: 14E

Great-crested Grebe: 4 on  

Oystercatcher: 1E

Curlew: 6E

Knot:18W

Dunlin: 1W

Kittiwake: 41E

Black-Headed Gull: 72E

Mediterranean Gull: 13E

Common Gull: 43E

Guillemot: 48E     4 on

Auk sp: 31E   

Red-throated Diver: 37E  1 on 

Fulmar: 2E    

Gannet: 273E   

Cormorant: present n/c

Skylark: 7 in

Harbour Porpoise: 2

As it was so windy today was the day to get domestic stuff done.

Yesterdays very brief 2nd calendar year Iceland Gull that flew west past the sea watch hide

The Cockles Bridge Cattle Egrets seem to have relocated to the airport road, the Ibises are still present but elusive. There are up to 3 Water Pipits present between Boulderwall and the hay fields but also elusive and easily flushed by people on the footpaths around the hay fields, the lakes are holding a few Goldeneye but little else of note, though it is very difficult to look properly with out Firth, Makepiece and Scott hides.

A couple of the long staying Ruff at Dengemarsh yesterday