With the hope of some Terns moving early morning, I arrived for a seawatch for an hour on a flat calm sea at 05:20. Birds noted included 7 Teal, 42 Oystercatcher, 2 Redshank, 70 Black headed Gull, 14 Mediterranean Gull, 1 Common Gull, c40 Herring Gull, 4 Great Black backed Gull, 52 Common Tern west, 142 'Commic' Tern west at distance, 49 Sandwich Tern east, 25 Cormorant, 1 Little Egret, 3 Grey Heron west at sea, 2 Peregrine and 2 Pied Wagtail. With the sea going quiet, I then walked the whole patch in warm temperatures and noted 4 Mute Swan drifting west offshore, 7 Feral Pigeon, 1 Stock Dove, 12 Woodpigeon, 3 Collared Dove, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Great spotted Woodpecker, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 7 Sand Martin, 2 Swallow, 1 Willow Warbler, 2 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 15 Whitethroat, 1 Firecrest, 41 Starling, 45 House Sparrow, 1 Tree Pipit called a few times and landed in some trees on the Downs. I had good views and managed a few distant record shots. There were 8 Linnet, 1 Goldfinch and as I sat on the clifftop at Bishopstone, 2 Snipe (135) flew in off the sea with 1 Wood Sandpiper (136) which called regularly as they flew south inland. The latter being a patch tick. Nocmig recording during Sunday night produced 1 Grey Heron, 1 Oystercatcher and 2 Ringed Plover.
Some welcome relaxing therapy to be had in your top two images sunrise and swans, did me the world of good to view them Marc.
ReplyDeleteRegards....Pete.
Cheers Pete. Certainly a good way to start the day off. Take care.
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