17/01/2025

A cold watch this morning 4ºC in force3 WSW breeze. No improvement in the birds made it seem much colder.

07.50-09.30  with RW, OL & Sue H

Great-crested Grebe: 4 present

Oystercatcher: 5E     1W

Kittiwake: 41W   

Black-headed Gull: Present n/c

Common Gull:  Present n/c

Herring Gull: Present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: Present n/c

Lesser Black-backed Gull: Present n/c

Guillemot: 1E  3W

Razorbill: 2E

Auk: 27W      58E

Red-throated Diver: 44W   93E  

Gannet: 51W   23E     

Cormorant: Present n/c.  

Grey Seal: 1

7 Russian White-fronted Geese over Lydd Fields taken from my garden, a nice garden year tick.

A 2w Caspian Gull on Burrowes before being disturbed by the work party

You can just about make out 3 Water Pipits in the above image, in the hayfield behind Christmas Dell

Water Pipit

The Long-tailed Duck and Great Northern Diver are still to be found on the New Diggings, I couldn't see the diver on Burrowes but it is probably still present. On Walland there were 34 Bewick Swans (per John Kirk) at Midley. The wintering Greenshank is still at Scotney but there was no sign of the 2 Tundra Bean Geese today but could still be present.