Early morning seven Great Northern Diver flew south with five diver sp. and four Red-throated Diver but little else was moving. Also offshore 36 Common Scoter, four Great Northern Diver, three summer-plumaged adult and an immature, a summer-plumaged Red-throated Diver, six Sandwich Tern and a 2cy Mediterranean Gull.
Signs of increased wader migration over both high tides with peak counts of 177 Dunlin, 46 Whimbrel, 37 Sanderling, 15 Bar-tailed Godwit, 15 Ringed Plover, seven Turnstone, two Grey Plover and a Knot. Also in the estuary five Eider and a Little Tern roosted on Finger Point.
Elsewhere migration was limited to a Yellow Wagtail overhead.
Ringing News: The day's highlight was the welcome sight of D63 amongst the Whimbrel. recorded here annually (except 2018) on spring migration since the first record on 18th April 2016. A day later than last year and its latest arrival.
The Little Tern was also colour-ringed, from a colony in Co. Wicklow, Ireland but too far away to read the individual code.
Other Wildlife: A Grey Seal was off Langstone Rock.
No comments:
Post a Comment