Another good day for wader
passage at Long Nab today with 10 species recorded for the second consecutive
day and all of those recorded were heading south apart from a single
Oystercatcher that went north, figures as follows – 68 Oystercatchers, 122
Whimbrels, 7 Curlews, 3 Bar-tailed Godwits, a Black-tailed Godwit, a Turnstone,
233 Knot, 7 Sanderling, 2 Dunlin and 5 Green Sandpipers that flew in from the
east and continued west. Also moving today were a Garganey (S) at 07.08, a Shoveler (N), 79 Teal (65 S, 14 N), a
Tufted Duck (S), 2 Eider (N), 356 Common Scoter (16 S, 340 N), a Sooty
Shearwater (S), 4 Manx Shearwater (S), a juvenile Mediterranean Gull (S), a
juvenile Yellow-legged Gull
following a fishing boat north at 07.33 and then south at 10.29, 295 Sandwich
Terns (55 S, 240 N), 10 Common Terns (5 S, 5 N), a Great Skua (N) and 11 Swifts
(S).
Also today two Green
Sandpipers were noted elsewhere in our area with one on Johnson’s Marsh at
04.45 at least and another was reported later in the day at Stoupe Brow.
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