A lovely, if breezy day
but it was clear that most of yesterday’s arrivals had moved on; the sea was
again dominated by 122 Red-throated Divers along with a White-billed Diver, 39 Gannets, 5 Tufted Ducks, 4 Velvet Scoter and
another 400 Common Gulls. The only other
birds through the morning were the first two Blackcaps of the spring – a male which sang briefly before flying
off high to the south and a female caught in the Labyrinth.
The afternoon was pretty quiet although there were
further increases in hirundines with 148+ Swallows and 25+ Sand Martins across
the area; other birds included an improved count of 93 Golden Plover, the two
Whimbrel and three islandica
Black-tailed Godwits still, the adult male Marsh Harrier and a Great-northern
Diver on the sea.
Marsh Harrier
Red-breasted Merganser
Long-tailed Duck coming into summer plumage
The three Black-tailed Godwits
Dunlin
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