Sat 6th Mar 21

Reports from today:

Max Martin

08:16 Matt was right, one Barnacle Goose in with Greylags spotted from within the car when driving along the marshes.

Matt Lonsdale

15:28 Haven this morning-

Offshore- seawatch 7-8:10am 2 Com Scoter N, 1 Brent N, 1 G C Grebe N, 100+ Red T Diver. Guillemot on sea + 3 G C Grebe and lots of Red T Diver. Later c11:30 scan in sluice bay produced 176 Red T Divers (on single scan in choppy sea, indication of how many out there... ) and 3 G C Grebe. Barnacle Goose and leucistic Greylag on arable alongside a Med Gull later on fields. Increase to 4 Goldcrest and few more Chaffinches in bushes.

 

Photo Matt Lonsdale©

Pillbox- 2 Stonechat, 6 ad GBB gulls powering N over scrape to Scandinavia? 

Scrape- 10+ Snipe, 1 Blackwit, 25 Avocet and 4 Gadwalls.

Woodcock in flight from seawall nr Golf Course dump (either in/off or flushed from seawall) but totally unexpected either way.

19:10 Bike up to farm this evening- c100 Linnets around paddocks, 2 groups of Curlew N along coast (c40 and 4) and group of c50 Bar-tailed Godwit N offshore. Group of 3 Grey Herons and a Little Egret N. Optimistic try of the whalings beach huts for Black Redstart again... no luck.