14/05/2024

The undoubted star of yesterday was this gorgeous Bee-eater

An unsurprisingly slow late sea watch, due to the appearance of a very elusive Melodious Warbler in The Moat, I probably had no more that half a dozen fleeting views of it in 2 hrs. A walk out into the trapping area proved fruitless. 

A Fox scavenging in front the sea watch hide

11.20-13.20 from the hide.

Common Scoter: 107E

Great-crested Grebe: 2 present 

Oystercatcher: 1E

Black-headed Gull: 2E

Mediterranean Gull: 2E

Common Gull: 1E 

Great Black-backed Gull: Present N/C

Herring Gull: present n/c

Sandwich Tern: 44E

Common Tern: 41E 

Arctic Skua: 1E   

Red-throated Diver: 2E

Black-throated Diver: 2E

Gannet: 9E  6W

Cormorant: present N/C

Harbour Porpoise: 3 

Grey Seal: 1

2 Spoonbills on Burrowes viewed from Makepiece late afternoon

2 Grey Plovers on the hay fields

A Great White Egret and several Little Egrets were on the hay fields along with 12 Redshank showing signs of displaying

A Pristine Painted Lady on the Denge Marsh track

Great Tit utilising a hole in Hanson Hide

Brown Argus at the ARC

A General Red-eyed Damselfly at the ARC