08/10/2024

 

Sooty Shearwater passing the boats this morning

07.15-11.00 & 14.00-15.30 from the boats with RW, OL, JY & Dave W Smith, GP.

Great-crested Grebe: 2 present

Curlew: 1W

Little Tern: 2W

Common Tern: 30W 

Sandwich Tern: 246W

Kittiwake: 2W

Black-headed Gull: 32W

Mediterranean Gull: 18W       

Common Gull: 35W

Arctic Skua: 10W      3E

Razorbill: 109W

Auk: 63W

Red-throated Diver: 2 present 

Sooty Shearwater: 1W 

Balearic Shearwater: 9W  

Shearwater sp: 2W

Gannet: 663W   

Cormorant: 82W/present

Kestrel: 1 SW out to sea

Merlin: 1 SW out to sea

Swallow: 5,915 out

House Martin: 1,023

Grey Wagtail: 1W

Meadow Pipit: 81W

Linnet: 63W

Goldfinch: 81W

Harbour Porpoise: 2

Grey Seal: 2

A rather distant Balearic Shearwater passing the boats this morning

A bruiser of an Arctic Skua at the fishing boats this afternoon

Common Snipe from Christmas Dell hide

9 New Islands have been created in front of Denge Marsh hide, although today there only Lapwings and a few Gulls on them, they do look promising.

On the ARC from Hanson 2 Black-tailed Godwits were the highlight per GJ

The Sycamore in the lighthouse garden has been chopped down for some as yet unknown reason.😢

A much anticipated moth was my first Radford's Flame Shoulder yesterday😀