The Scotney Sandpit has been the best place on the peninsula for birds this weekend, with up to 3 Wood Sandpipers, 20 Green Sandpipers, 10 Common Sandpipers, a Curlew Sandpiper, a Pectoral Sandpiper, a Temminck's Stint, 10 Dunlin, 4 Common Snipe, 2 Redshank, 3 Greenshank, 100+ Golden Plover, Ringed and Little Ringed Plover, 3 Ruff, a Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Tree Sparrows flew over. Nearby 24 Curlew, 100+ Yellow Wagtails, 5 Marsh Harriers and 3 Hobbys.
The ARC has been relatively disappointing but there are always lots of wildfowl there, the reserve is still very disappointing though it does look like the Pectoral Sandpiper might have relocated there.
The bushes have had reasonable numbers of Willow Warblers and Sylvias but only 2 03 Flycatchers and redstarts have been found.
The sea watching is still very poor.
Temminck's Stint
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wood Sandpipers
Some of the up tp 20 Green Sandpipers present around the site
Some of the many Yellow Wagtails around this weekend
The local Little Owl sun bathing
Common Buzzard and Sparrowhawk over the garden while having lunch
Todays Pied Flycatcher in the Elder at Galloways Road
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