Tuesday, 10 December 2024

10/12/2024

Red-throated Divers moving past the fishing boats into Lade Bay in the gloomy weather

07.45-09.45 from the Boats. Overcast, NE wind 7º
Brent Goose: 2E     
Wigeon: 9E
Tufted Duck: 1E
Common Scoter: 5E
Great-crested Grebe: 32E    9 present
Oystercatcher: 33E
Kittiwake: 9E
Black-headed Gull:  present 
Mediterranean Gull: 2E
Common Gull:  present
Herring Gull: present
Great Black-backed Gull: present  
Lesser Black-backed Gull: present  
Guillemot: 77E          
Auk: 14E       
Red-throated Diver: 56E       4W   
Great Northern Diver: 1E 
Fulmar: 1E
Gannet: 479E       
Cormorant: 2,807E   (07.45-08.15)
Grey Seal: 2
Common Seal: 2
Oystercatchers passing the fishing boats this morning
I totally messed up what should have been a reasonable image of Great Northern Diver😆
Whooper Swan at Newlands Farm, Walland Marsh.
Most of Walland Marsh seemed devoid of avian life, I did find a few Fieldfare and Redwing but that was about it.
I walked around the reserve this afternoon in the drizzle and saw only a Raven of note, even the Black-necked Grebe was hiding. The Hume's Warbler was still in the observatory gardens but very elusive per DW. 

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