20/04/2024

The XIN YAO HUA making its way to Port Louis, Mauritius, arriving 24/05/2024. The picture doesn't do this incredibly huge ship justice. It gives you some idea how poor the sea watch was again today, that I was looking at the ships.

06.30-08.30 & 13.30-15.00 with RW, OL  from the sea watch hide.  Wind N 5-6Temp 5° 

Shelduck: 2E

Common Scoter: 67E  

Great-crested Grebe: 2W    4 present 

Curlew: 1W

Whimbrel: 6E

Bar-tailed Godwit: 111E

Kittiwake: 1E

Black-headed Gull: 15W

Great Black-backed Gull: 26W

Herring Gull: present n/c

Sandwich Tern: 49E   4W

Common Tern:  50E  11W

Guillemot: 4E     1W

Auk Sp: 5E    

Red-throated Diver: 8E

Gannet: 54E   64W

Cormorant: 41W   7E      

Carrion Crow: 12 in off

Harbour Porpoise: 2

One of 3 Great White Egrets feeding in front the Axell Viewpoint late morning

Unsurprisingly in todays stiff Northerly wind a wander around the ARC was fairly unproductive, small numbers of the common warblers were heard rather than seen, over the lake several Swallows, Sand Martins and 2 House Martins, as there are still no islands at the ARC there was zero wader interest. Burrowes is also still without islands so no waders and no Terns, just a few Hirundines.