28/10/2024

Intense rainbow over the power station as I arrived this morning at sunrise

A very busy sea watch on my own but no quality.

06.50-08.45 from the Hide &13.00-14.00 from the Fishing Boats
Brent Goose: 10W
Wigeon: 1W
Common Scoter: 4W
Red-breasted Merganser: 1W
Great-crested Grebe: 2E
Dunlin: 1W
Curlew: 1W
Sandwich Tern: 5W
Kittiwake: 26W
Black-headed Gull: c2,000W
Mediterranean Gull: 41W          
Common Gull: 172W
Herring Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Lesser Black-backed Gull: present n/c 

Arctic Skua: 1W
Razorbill: 311W    
Guillemot: 20W  
Auk: 48W    21E
Red-throated Diver: 2W
Gannet: 556W.   89E
Cormorant: 434W
Peregrine: 1 in off carrying prey

Swallow: 3 SW out to sea
Starling: 30W
Goldfinch: 18W

Harbour Porpoise: 1
Grey Seal: 1
A brisk walk around The Desert and southern trapping area was as expected very poor avian wise, a few Chiffchaffs heard, and a few each of Redpoll and Siskin overhead was about it.

On the reserve 4+ Great White Egrets and 8 Cattle Egrets around the Boulderwall Fields, from Dennis's the Red-throated diver was quite distant and couple of Caspian Gulls on the ever diminishing islands.

From Hanson very little of interest the usual wildfowl are clinging on to a few stalks of vegetation that were once islands. In the Willow Trail a Migrant Hawker and Great spotted Woodpecker, along with several unseen Water rails and Cetti's Warblers. As far as I know only Tom and myself are left on the peninsular this week, Wednesday and Thursday are looking interesting weather wise.

Great White Egret

One of two 1w Caspian Gulls from Dennis's late morning