02/10/2024

Brent Geese going back east this afternoon. As is usual the first groups to arrive are all adults.

The sea watching continues to be very poor.

 07.45-09.00 from the Hide & 13.15-15.00 from the boats with RW
Brent Goose: 140W     164E

Wigeon: 18W      3E
Common Scoter: 5W    7E

Great-crested Grebe: 2 present
Dunlin: 2E

Common Tern: 22E
Sandwich Tern: 8W
Kittiwake: 2W
Little Gull: 1W   1 present 
Black-headed Gull: 16W
Mediterranean Gull: 6W
Common Gull: 7W
Herring Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Lesser Black-backed Gull: present n/c  
Arctic Skua: 1W  2E 

Razorbill: 3E

Auk sp: 3E

Red-throated Diver: 1W    
Gannet: 65W   42E
Cormorant: 40W
Sand Martin: 1E
Swallow: 19E
House Martin: 5E
Raven: 4E
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 2

Arctic Skua chasing a Sandwich Tern

Arctic Skua catches its prize mid air

The tables are turned

Common Tern at the fishing boats this afternoon

One of the two Black Terns on Burrowes this morning

Apart from the Black Terns there was little of note on Burrowes. There hay fields look good but this morning they're absolutely nothing there avian wise.

 Just a thought, as the fields were  allowed to completely become bone dry for at least a couple of months and no water being pumped on at all, would the drying out kill all the inverts the Ducks and waders feed on, hence no birds there now until food stocks replenished!🤷

At the ARC the Glossy Ibis , Garganey and Black-necked Grebe all still present per RW.

There were at least 30 Common Snipe in front of Christmas Dell Hide