Tues 26th Oct 21

I spent morning working my way from the main road through to the hide, 1 Blk. T Godwit was on the flooded marsh north of the approach road with lots of gulls, 20+ Blackbirds and 2 Song Thrushes were noted through to the carpark bushes, 2 Cetti's Warbler (1 Dipping Pond-1 Raised Platform), a Blackcap and a Garden Warbler in the bramble below the Orchard. c70 Lapwing were on the scrape below the Raised Platform.

The sluice rocks held 2 Purple Sands, 7 Turnstone, 1 Med Gull, Herring & Blk. H Gulls.

On the scrape: 4 Mute Swans, 194 Greylag, 140 Teal, 70 Wigeon, 11 Shoveler, 2 Shelduck, 9 Snipe, 1 Green Sandpiper, 60 Blk. H Gulls, 10+ Herring Gulls, 1 Med Gull (metal ring on right leg), 1 Grey Heron, 1 Buzzard.

A sea-watch after a bacon roll added: 37 Brent (s), 6 Cormorant (s), 9 Gannet (3n 2s +4) the 4 Gannet were hanging around and on a couple of occasions found a shoal of fish and were plunge diving. 1 Guillemot sitting on the sea

Reports from today:

Matt Lonsdale

19:05 Apologies for late report. Frustrating morning @haven till c10am. Prob. Woodlark @09:18 (flew over me at French point heading SW along moth enclosure hedge , called once but only got on it as it was going away😩. Just not quite good enough seeing as it would have been a first for me @ haven..)

Anyway other bits included 8 Redpoll, 2 Siskin and a decent passage of Linnet, Goldfinch and Chaffinch). Increase in Cormorants offshore with 10+ Gannet + a couple of R T Diver and Med Gull from glances to sea. Grey Wag over sewage farm, Blackwit on scrape and 4+ Stonechat was a slight increase.

Peter Newton

15:41 15.00-15.35. 4 Gannets , 2 Med Gulls , 2 Snipe, 1 Red throated diver