Sunday 15 August 2021

Sunday 15th August

Seawatching saw eight Balearic Shearwater head south with five Arctic Skua, a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull, 220 Gannet, 20 Kittiwake, nine Common Scoter and three Common Tern.

Counts from the estuary included the juvenile Curlew Sandpiper, exactly 1000 Oystercatcher, 370 Curlew, 176 Ringed Plover, 96 Dunlin, 66 Sandwich and a Common Tern, 46 Whimbrel, 19 Sanderling, 12 Mediterranean Gull, four Bar-tailed and a Black-tailed Godwit, three Teal and two Greenshank

Elsewhere 32 Lesser Black-backed Gull flew south with 26 Swallow and two House Martin also overhead, four Wheatear were on the Golf Course with two Willow Warbler and a Coal Tit in the bushes.

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