One of the parties of Avocets passing The Point this morning
With a change in wind direction over night immediately improved the sea watching making the six hours I spent there fly by, the downside of the easterly wind was the air pollution cutting visibility noticeably.
An early flock of Brent Geese picking up the red hue from the rising sun
06.50-12.50 joined by DW & OL from the sea watch hide. Wind E4-5 Temp 7°
Brent Goose: 410E (26 parties)
Shelduck: 28E ( 5 parties)
Shoveler: 27E (5 parties)
Wigeon: 3E
Pintail: 124E (9parties)
Teal: 61E ( 9 parties)
Common Scoter: 96E ( 15 parties)
Great-crested Grebe: 12E 9 on sea
Oystercatcher: 15E
Avocet: 23E (8 + 15)
Curlew: 8E
Bar-tailed Godwit: 2E
Dunlin: 13E
Kittiwake: 36E
Black-headed Gull: 56E
Mediterranean Gull: 2E
Common Gull: 68E
Great Black-backed Gull: Present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c
Guillemot: 376E
Razorbill: 73E
Auk sp: 258E 17W
Red-throated Diver: 31E 98W
Fulmar: 1W
Gannet: 138E
Cormorant: Minimum 179 present
Black Redstart: M + F behind hide
Harbour Porpoise: 1
Grey Seal: 1
A flock of mainly Pintail with some Shoveler passing this morning
Cormorant with a Dogfish
One of todays Black Redstarts
A Small Tortoiseshell my first butterfly of the year yesterday at the lighthouse
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