25/03/2024

Brent Geese passing the sea watch hide this morning

06.30-11.00 & 13.30-15.30 with RW,DW, SM, JY et al from the sea watch hide. Wind SSE 5-6 Temp 9° 

Brent Goose: 1,953E (43 parties)
Shelduck: 2E       
Shoveler: 15E
Teal: 14E
Common Scoter: 268E  
Red-breasted Merganser: 9E     
Great-crested Grebe: 6E   12 present 
Oystercatcher: 9E  

Dunlin: 12E 
Curlew: 1E
Kittiwake: 24E    
Black-headed Gull: 5W
Common Gull: 61E
Great Black-backed Gull:  present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c
Lesser Black-backed Gull: 15E
Sandwich Tern: 91E   12W     
Guillemot: 5E   2 present   
Auk sp: 52E      14W
Red-throated Diver: 147E    6W 
Black-throated Diver: 2E
Fulmar: 6E      1W
Gannet: 73E    31W
Cormorant: 46 present
Harbour Porpoise: 4

Grey Seal: 1

Very little news from elsewhere on the peninsula, just the 2 x 2 cal year Little Gulls still on Burrowes.