Another dull and windy day saw little change with good numbers of auk heading south offshore with several Fulmar, three Red-throated and a Great Northern Diver.
Elsewhere 80 Common Gull, 46 Shelduck, 28 Wigeon, eight Red-breasted Merganser and a Pintail were in the estuary, two Shoveler, a Snipe and a Kingfisher were at the Main Pond and the bushes held a Sparrowhawk with single Green and Great-spotted Woodpecker.
Wildlife News: A Fox was active on Warren Point early morning.
The Velvet Scoter remained offshore with the Slavonian and 11 Great-crested Grebe, three Red-throated and two Great Northern Diver, 15 Kittiwake and four Razorbill.
Elsewhere the bushes were quiet although the silence was broken by the occasional 'yaffle' from a Green Woodpecker, four Shoveler were on the Main Pond and a flock of 140 Snipe high over Greenland Lake were no doubt disturbed from the saltmarsh.
Counts from the estuary on a low high tide included 161 Brent Geese, 79 Common Gull, 47 Shelduck, 29 Wigeon and four Red-breasted Merganser.
Wildlife News: At least five Common Dolphin were showing well off the seawall.
The Velvet Scoter was off the estuary mouth this morning but no other news was received.
A morning look off the seawall eventually revealed the Velvet Scoter, a Great Northern Diver, three Razorbill and numerous Great-crested Grebe.
There was no sign of the Slavonian Grebe in choppy conditions offshore with the Velvet Scoter sheltering towards the mouth of estuary. Off the seawall 18 Common Scoter and three Red-throated Diver on the sea with 12 Red-throated Diver and 200 auk sp south, Elsewhere 128 Common Gull were in the estuary with three Shoveler and a Kingfisher at the Main Pond.
News was only received from the seawall, where the Velvet Scoter remained offshore with 10 Great-crested Grebe, five Common Scoter and two Red-throated Diver.
The Velvet Scoter showed well off the seawall, with the Slavonian and 15 Great-crested Grebe, eight Common Scoter and a Great Northern Diver.
Counts from the estuary included 920 Dunlin, 159 Grey and 35 Ringed Plover, 127 Bar-tailed Godwit, 105 Knot, 93 Redshank, 89 Teal, 17 Wigeon, seven Greenshank and two Pale bellied Brent Geese.
The Velvet Scoter was still offshore but remained distant, also off the seawall 10 Great-crested Grebe, three Red-throated and two Great Northern Diver. A Grey Wagtail overhead was the first of the year.
Wildlife News: The warm and sunny weather brought out the insects, mainly on the flowering Gorse and Hebe, with several Marmalade Hoverfly (assumed migrants given the southerlies) and a few Common Dronefly Eristalis tenax. There were also plenty of Honey Bee and Buff-tailed Bumblebee collecting pollen. No butterflies unfortunately. Elsewhere a Wood Mouse scampered through the undergrowth in Dead Dolphin Wood.
The two Black-necked Grebe remained off Cockwood but no other news were received.
