23/04/2024

A wisp of Bar-tailed Godwits high over the tanker way out in the channel 

06.30-09.00 & 12.45-15.30 with RW, JY, TW, OL  from the sea watch hide.  Wind NW 2-3 Temp 4° rising to 7° 

Common Scoter: 45E   

Red-breasted Merganser: 2W

Great-crested Grebe: 1W    2 present 

Cattle Egret: 1 in off 

Oystercatcher: 10E

Curlew: 2E

Bar-tailed Godwit: 933E

Kittiwake: 9E

Mediterranean Gull: 1E

Common Gull: 2E

Great Black-backed Gull: 12E     26W

Herring Gull: present n/c

Sandwich Tern: 69E 

Common Tern: 24E

Comic Tern: 120E 

Arctic Skua: 2E

Guillemot: 1E 

Auk Sp: 17E    

Red-throated Diver: 16E 

Fulmar: 2E     2W

Gannet: 115E   228W

Cormorant: 33W  10E  

Swallow: 24 in off    

Harbour Porpoise: 6

Black Redstart again behind the hide today

A tired Cattle Egret getting a hot reception from the local Herring Gulls for the last few hundred metres of its journey across the channel. 

A very quiet day passerine wise around the peninsula with little or no new arrivals today.

Grey Plover on Hayfield 2 today

Plenty of Sedge warblers singing around Denge Marsh today

The friendly Pied Wagtail met me again at Springfield Bridge today