With a light wind forecast for this morning, I was out at 6am in the hope of catching and owl calling in the area. Around 06:30, I could hear a Tawny Owl which called distantly for c20 minutes. Also in the dark, I managed to hear 3 Golden Plover, 1 Lapwing, 2 Song Thrush singing, 1 Woodcock flew over in silhouette as the light slowly picked up and 7 Grey Partridge were seen and heard calling at dawn. I then had a look at the sea for an hour which was pretty quiet but I did note 125 Brent Geese, 6 Shelduck, c80 Feral Pigeon, 1 Oystercatcher, 17 Redshank, 21 Turnstone, c80 Black headed Gull, 2 Common Gull, 64 Herring Gull, 3 Great Black backed Gull, 50 Great crested Grebe offshore, 12 Red throated Diver, 12 Cormorant, 2 Peregrine Falcon with one seeing carrying prey back to the pier, 2 Pied Wagtail and 1 Grey Wagtail (61) flew over calling. With the sea quiet, I then returned back to the Bishopstone area where I had 2 Stock Dove (62), 11 Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay (63), 8 Blue Tit, 6 Great Tit, 8 Skylark, 5 Long tailed Tit, 2 Goldcrest (64), 2 Wren, 19 Starling, 2 Blackbird, 5 Robin, 4 Dunnock, 22 House Sparrow, 4 Chaffinch and 24 Linnet. Nocmig recording Friday night produced a flock of White fronted Geese (65) over calling early evening and 4 Ringed Plover.
White fronted Geese
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