29/11/2024

 

Merlin on the beach by the fishing boats early morning

Shelduck and Brent Geese passing the fishing boats this morning

07.20-09.20 from the Boats with CP, TH

Brent Goose: 69W  
Shelduck: 26W   
Wigeon: 4W
Common Scoter: 6W    3E
Great-crested Grebe: 10W
Oystercatcher: 4E
Dunlin: 37W
Sandwich Tern: 4W
Kittiwake: 76W
Black-headed Gull:  c250 present 
Mediterranean Gull: 2E
Common Gull:  41W
Herring Gull: c200 present
Great Black-backed Gull: c20 present
Lesser Black-backed Gull: 2 present
Sandwich tern: 4W       
Guillemot: 116W
Razorbill: 259W
Auk: 510W 
Red-throated Diver: 25W  
Sooty Shearwater: 1W @ 07.20 per CP 
Gannet: 124W    11E
Cormorant: present n/c
Merlin: 1 present
Harbour Porpoise: 1
Common Seal: 1
Grey Seal: 2
13.20-14.00
Turnstone: 1W
Kittiwake: 5W
Mediterranean Gull: 1E
Auk sp: 58W
Red-throated Diver: 2W
Gannet: 37W

Guillemots passing this morning

Brent Geese overhead along the beach

Very quiet around the peninsula today. The Black-necked Grebes and a Slavonian Grebe was still on Burrowes Pits with another Black-necked Grebe on the ARC, Scotney was very windswept with little to see of note.