A very wet morning watch that produced my first Arctic Skuas of the year. This afternoon was very slow in the bright sunshine.

The Cattle Egrets and Glossy Ibises were reported as being present, despite there being a number of observers around the peninsula nothing else of any note was reported.

 06.30 - 11.00 & 14.00-16.00 from the hide with CP, RW, SM.
Brent Goose: 412E 
Mute Swan: 2E
Shelduck: 2E
Teal: 3E  
Velvet Scoter: 2E
Common Scoter: 433E     17W
Red-breasted Merganser: 6E
Wood Pigeon: 1E in off
Great-crested Grebe: 6  on  
Oystercatcher: 12E
Kittiwake: 194E
Little Gull: 10E
Mediterranean Gull: 7E
Lesser Black-backed Gull: 12E
Sandwich Tern: 42E
Great Skua: 1E
Arctic Skua: 2E
Guillemot: 471E     8W
Razorbill: 8E
Auk sp: 437E     36W
Red-throated Diver: 105E  6W    
Fulmar: 6E   1W 
Gannet: 679E    
Cormorant: present n/c
Harbour Porpoise: 7
Grey Seal: 1

The drake Scaup was still at Camber yesterday