10:10 - 12:40pm. Weather: bright & sunny, mild.
Another visit to possibly pick up another wader I'd not seen before.
Car-park:
Woodpigeon, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Lapwing.
Skylark - heard, even from the carpark,
Robin - juvenile.
Blue Tit - juvenile.
Freshwater Marshes:
Cormorant, Starling, Coot, Black-Headed Gull.
Curlew - over.
Mute Swan - 2,
Bearded Tit - heard first, then above the reeds as usual.
Reed Warbler - 2.
Freshwater Marshes:
Black-Tailed Godwit, Moorhen, Dunlin, Swift.
Pectoral Sandpiper - just the same as last month's temminck's & curlew-sand, I fortunately had another wader that I'd never seen before pointed out to me on the freshwater marshes, which was feeding amongst the dunlin & ruff. In fact it was reminiscent of a small ruff (as the Collins said it was). On the way back I stopped at the Island Hide & picked it up again & was able to return the favour of pointing it out to other birders who were looking for it. A nice tick & one I hope to add to my North American list someday soon.
Ruff, Redshank, Shelduck, Avocet, Little Tern, Pied Wagtail.
Yellow Wagtail - another notable sighting of a bird always a pleasure to see.
Common Sandpiper - bobbing about the mud.
Grey Heron, Kestrel, Swallow.
Herring Gull, Mallard, Little Egret, Meadow Pipit.
Wren - heard.
Linnet - 1 male.
Common Tern, Canada Goose.
Beach:
Oystercatcher, Turnstone, Bar-Tailed Godwit, Great Black-Backed Gull.
Sea:
Eider - c.12 at sea.
Arctic Skua - almost as soon as I reached the beach & sat on the bench than a warden pointed out that there were two of these beauties flying around & kleptoparasiting the gulls & ducks as they usually do. It didn't take long to pick them up & I was struck by the white underwing patches, though this is by no means a clincher for their id & I was happy to rely on the warden's id & a great bonus to see as they'd just turned up that day.
Gannet - 3.
Island Hide:
Bearded Tit - c.6 feeding on the mud just in front of the reeds, not something I'd seen before.
Marsh Harrier - juvenile.
Golden Plover - c.10.
Heading Back:
Sand Martin - 2 over.
Sedge Warbler, Great Tit, Great Spotted Woodpecker.
54 species, 2 new species.
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