Pale-bellied Brent Goose with Dark-bellied Brent Geese

  An excellent morning sea watching producing the first 3 Sandwich terns of the spring., fingers crossed for many more in the coming weeks.

06.45-11.45 with SO, DW from the sea watch hide. Wind SSE4-5 Temp 7°

Brent Goose: 1,569E (34 parties)

Pale-bellied Brent Goose: 3E

Shelduck: 12E (2 parties)

Shoveler: 15E (3 parties)

Wigeon: 12E  (3 parties)

Pintail: 46(8 parties)

Teal: 29E ( 6 parties)

Tufted Duck: 3E

Velvet Scoter: 7E  (1 party)

Common Scoter: 68E ( 17 parties)

Great-crested Grebe:  9E    2W

Oystercatcher: 6E

Curlew: 6E (3 parties)

Dunlin: 12E  (4 parties)

Kittiwake: 56E

Black-headed Gull: 46E

Mediterranean Gull: 4E  ( 1 party)

Common Gull: 49E

Great Black-backed Gull: 37E

Herring Gull: present n/c

Lesser Black-backed Gull: 1E

Sandwich Tern: 3E

Guillemot: 108E

Razorbill: 11E 

Auk sp: 117E     

Red-throated Diver: 427E    6W 

Fulmar:5E

Gannet: 1,605E

Cormorant:  present n/c

Skylark: 1E off shore

Harbour Porpoise: 2

Grey Seal: 1

Common Seal: 1

 

Velvets Scoters passing distantly this morning

2 Great Northern Divers were still on Burrowes late this afternoon

Curlew on Hay Field 2 late afternoon