24/03/2024

Probably the poorest watch of the year so far! Conditions look better as week goes on🤞

 06.30-08.30 with SO from the sea watch hide, Wind WNW 6  Temp 5° 

Brent Goose: 11E

Great-crested Grebe: 2E   1 present 

Black-headed Gull: 1W

Mediterranean Gull: 1E    

Common Gull: 1E

Great Black-backed Gull:  present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c 

Sandwich Tern: 1W

Guillemot: 1E   1 present

Auk sp: 8E      

Red-throated Diver: 10E   1W     1 on

Gannet: 14E   5W      

Cormorant: 1E  (c2 mile offshore high) 13 present

Black Redstart: 1 present

Meadow Pipit: 2 in off

Carrion Crow: 1 in off

Harbour Porpoise: 2+

I think the Black-throated Diver and one on the Great Northern Divers have finally departed, just the one GND has been seen since Friday. A bit of an arrival of Wheatears and Willow Warblers this weekend but no exceptional numbers. A couple of Sedge Warblers on the reserve and the first Garganey there today, SM found a Garganey yesterday on the sward at Scotney. 

The Glossy Ibis looked stunning while it was touring the hay fields in the afternoon sun

This Garganey flashed across the footpath just in front of me at head height as walked between Scott and Christmas Dell, by the time I got my camera up and on to it, it was already dropping into hay field 3.

The same bird very distant at the bottom of hay field 3

One of several White Wagtails around this weekend

Yesterdays Slavonian Grebe on the ARC was sadly gone today

3 Black-necked Grebes yesterday on the ARC , just 2 today

At least 2 Little Gulls were present on Burrowes this afternoon