Sat 5th Aug 23

Reports from today:

Pete Loud

07:40 Pied Flycatcher along hedge by brook on way to hide.

12:36 Difficult dodging between heavy showers, but before the rain kicked in a large mixed flock along the brook was very productive. Plenty of Long tailed, Blue and Great Tits with 1 Garden Warbler, 3 Reed Warbler, 12 Willow Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 2 Whitethroat, Blackcap and Pied Flycatcher. 1 Turnstone in with 5 Ringed Plover past the Sluice. Scrape, 5 Common Sand, 2 Dunlin, 14 Blackwit, 2 Avocet, 1 Snipe, 1 Curlew, 30 Lapwing, 5 Shoveler, 12 Teal and juvenile Med Gull.

19:17 Seawatch from shelter 4PM- 5.30. Nortbound 60+Sandwich Tern, 20 Common Tern, 1 Probable Juvenile Arctic Tern, 7 Common Scoter. Southbound, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 Fulmar and 3 Grey Plover. Lots of Lesser Whitethroat, Whitethroat and Willow Warblers in the bushes this evening.(ML,RJ,PL)

Paul Brayshaw

15:18 Black Tern v close north off northern pillbox.

15:38 Terns now steaming through incl on landward side of sea wall.  All 2 fulmar, 12 kitts and Arctic skua since the rain eased - no bins required! (But really am very soaked!).

16:26 Haven area totals 58 sandwich, 216 common, 2 little and black tern, 3 fulmar, 19 kittiwake, 6 gannet, Arctic skua and sanderling north plus a wheatear trying to stay dry near the raised tee.