05/07/2023

 

After the sea watch I joined DW at The Patch where he spotted this juvenile Yellow-legged Gull the first of the year. Also 30+ Mediterranean Gulls there and a couple 2nd year Yellow-legged Gulls.

Even by recent standards this mornings sea watch was abysmal!

07.00-08.00 from the hide 
Great-crested Grebe: 1  present

Kittiwake: 3W
Mediterranean Gull: 7W towards The Patch
Sandwich Tern:  1W    4E
Guillemot: 2W
Gannet: 18W
Cormorant: 1W    1E
Swift: 24 in    
Harbour Porpoise: None seen today again
Grey Seal: 1

1 of the Common Sandpipers at The ARC today

Yesterdays Wood Sandpiper at the ARC was still present today, along with another, 2 Common Sandpipers, a Black-tailed Godwit, 8 Dunlin. 10 Little Ringed Plovers, 7 Ringed Plovers, a Garganey and all the other usual suspects. 

A walk around the reserve late afternoon in the strong winds saw many Sand Martins around, 8 Common Terns, a Black-tailed Godwit and the usual Gulls, a Hobby flashed over Christmas Dell but I saw little else, the pool behind Dengemarsh Hide is drying up rapidly. 

Pine Hawkmoth, the highlight of a soggy moth trap this morning