15/10/2024

Some of this mornings Brent Geese very distant, like this flock over the back of the container vessel which is a minimum of 6 miles out in the shipping lanes.

Other flocks were much closer

 07.30-10.30 from the Hide

Brent Goose: 3043W

Shelduck: 81W

Shoveler: 14W

Wigeon: 103

Pintail: 28W

Teal: 11W

Common Scoter: 91W    28E

Red-breasred Merganser: 1W

Great-crested Grebe: 1W     4 present

Oystercatcher: 3W

Dunlin: 1W

Arctic Tern: 1 present

Common tern: 1 present

Sandwich Tern: 27W

Black-headed Gull: 183W

Mediterranean Gull: 156W       

Common Gull: 18W

Herring Gull: present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Lesser Black-backed Gull: present n/c  

Arctic Skua: 2W     2E

Razorbill: 82W

Guillemot: 9W      

Auk: 11W

Red-throated Diver: 1E

Sooty Shearwater: 1E  

Gannet: 92W   40E

Harbour Porpoise: 3

Dolphin sp: 3+W

Grey Seal: 2

Juvenile Arctic Tern

Gannet trailing what I hope is only sea weed which will fall off as it rots

Siberian Chiffchaff

100+ birds were ringed at the observatory today including the above Siberian Chiffchaff, a late Willow Warbler, several Firecrests and Redwing. At leat 3 Black Redstarts were around the Polish Memorial.

There were still good numbers of Chiffchaffs around at least 1 Wheatear and a trickle of Swallows and House Martins.

A late Willow Warbler

Firecrest

Redwing

Avocets on Burrowes, 2 of which were colour ringed