Sunday 21 January 2024

Sunday 21st January

Seawatching from 1hr 45 minutes from first light saw the following heading, SW, 544 auk sp., 200 Gannet, 43 Kittiwake, seven Common Scoter, seven Red-throated and three Great Northern Diver, three Fulmar, three Red-breasted Merganser and the year's first Golden Plover flew in off the sea with a Turnstone.

The juvenile Spoonbill was again in the estuary with the Pale-bellied Brent Goose and a possible hybrid/intergrade Dark/Pale-belled Brent amongst the 311 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 241 Teal, 95 Shelduck, 50 Wigeon, two Eider, a pair of Red-breasted Merganser by the Wreck and an adult Mediterranean Gull and a grey Muscovy Duck in the saltmarsh.

The monthly WeBS count was on a neap tide so wader counts were much reduced with just 802 Dunlin, 136 Knot, 48 Grey and 16 Ringed Plover, 16 Curlew, six Bar-tailed Godwit and two Sanderling present.

Storm Isha, despite being centred northwest of Ireland, kept the site blown out with just two Goldcrest and a Chiffchaff found in the bushes, seven Shoveler (five ♂ two ♀) on the ponds and a ♀ Pheasant in Greenland Lake.

Year list additions:

96. Golden Plover
97. Pheasant

Other Wildlife: The Grey Squirrel was in the Entrance Bushes and a Field Vole was in Greenland Lake.


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