Another lovely day,
extremely calm with varying cloud cover; it turned out to be a decent day in
the field with the highlights being a Great White Egret on
Ancum, twitched in the morning but still present in the afternoon (only the 4th
island record!) and a cracking female Hawfinch I caught in
Holland a bit later. I also caught a
Blackcap, a Willow Warbler and a Collared Dove in Holland.
The definite highlight of the northern census route
was a pod of at least 6 ORCAS off the
seawatch hide which showed well but distantly as they moved off south and out;
birds included a Wood Sandpiper on Garso, 4 Tree Sparrows,
also at Garso, 4 Chiffchaffs, a Sedge Warbler, 2 Common Redpolls (I guess they
were anyway but they were almost Lesser-like), an influx of 11 Lesser
Black-backed Gulls and at least 12 Bonxies following a fishing boat.
The pod of Orcas reappeared later in the afternoon
and I saw them distantly off Gretchen as they headed west and out; there were a
pair of Garganey on Gretchen along with 4 Black-tailed Godwits and at least 8
Great-northern Divers offshore on flat calm seas.
Hawfinch
Wood Sandpiper
Redpoll sp.
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