20/10/2023

Unsurprisingly this mornings sea watch with Richard was very poor and abandoned after a fruitless hour. A wander around the trapping area was just as fruitless, apart from Siskins and Redpoll flocks, a Yellow-browed Warbler briefly at the old lighthouse garden found by SM, had disappeared by the time I arrived.

A check of the southern end of the ARC on my way home for breakfast saw the 2 Whooper Swans.

The Whooper Swans have now relocated to the southern end of the ARC where they spent most of last winter.
 

An aberrant Golden Plover at Burrowes

 The 3 Glossy Ibis were at Boulderwall. At Burrowes all 3 Egret Species, a Polish ringed 1w Caspian Gull, an adult Yellow-legged Gull, Golden Plovers, a Ruff and the usual wildfowl.

At the fishing boats this afternoon a confiding Red-throated Diver and c50 Mediterranean Gulls but little else of note.

Some of the 60+ Goldfinches currently coming in to my garden to feed.