An early morning sea watch from the fishing boats saw a few very distant Manx Shearwaters going East and West, small number of west bound Gannets, 11 Common Scoters east and very little else.
A couple of visits to the ARC saw 3-4 Norfolk Hawkers, 2 Redshank, 4 Ringed Plovers and 2 Little Ringed Plovers, Hobby and Marsh Harrier of any note, only 2 Common Terns there. Apparently aa the Common terns have disappeared from the Tern rafts, they were getting a soaking during the yesterday high winds from waves breaking over the rafts. Burrowes was not much better with no Terns being seen there and the Common Gulls do not seem to be interested in breeding. A Turnstone was he only wader on Burrowes though there was numerous Swifts hawking over the lake.
An incoming Swift
Swift catching a small insect
A nice flyby Common Swift
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