Monday 21 August 2017

P:C65 Polish ringed juvenile Yellow-legged Gull 
05.45-09.45 from the sea watch hide & 10.20-12.00 from the fishing boats with AJG et al:
Shelduck: 15 up
Teal: 3 down
Common Scoter: 71 down    6 up
Great-crested Grebe: 5 around
Fulmar: 6 up
Gannet: 104 up   121 down
Cormorant: present n/c
Turnstone: 6 around
Sanderling: 2 down
Dunlin: 127 down
Great Skua: 4 down
Arctic Skua: 20 down
Pomarine Skua: 1 down
Yellow-legged Gull: 2 juveniles around
Kittiwake: 9 up 7 down
Sandwich Tern: c100 up
Common Tern: c150 down
Black Tern: 2 down
Sand Martin: 4 out
Harbour Porpoise: 8+
Greay Seal: 2
At lunchtime on the reserve 22+ Black Terns on Burrowes, also 60+ Dunlin, 8+ Common Sandpipers, many Sand martins and 20+ Swifts.
Over the road on the ARC 15 Black-tailed Godwits, 4 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpipers, 3 Ringed Plovers, 2 Little ringed Plovers and the usual wildfowl.
Another sea watch this afternoon 14.10-16.00 was very slow, with just an Arctic Skua, 2 Oystercatchers and a Whimbrel of any note.


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