Friday 21st August 2015

Migration watch; 06.00 - 09.40 and 17.40 - 19.50hrs.
On the move (south unless stated) were 2 Red-throated Diver + 1 north, 1 Shag north, 5 Cormorant + 1 north, 18 Fulmar, 2461 Gannet, 1 Grey heron, 134 Teal + 36 north, 8 Wigeon north, 7 Common Scoter + 126 north, 3TR9 Oystercatcher, 2 Sanderling, 7 Dunlin, 1 juvenile Curlew Sandpiper 07.38hrs, 3 Turnstone, 9 Knot + 1 north, 13 Redshank, 2 Greenshank, 1 Curlew, 1 Arctic Skua, 23 Black-headed Gull + 2 north, 2 Common Gull, 12 Great Black-backed Gull, 40 Kittiwake, 1 Arctic Tern, 17 Common Tern, 5 Sandwich Tern north, 2 Black Tern at 06.09hrs, 6 Swift and 2 Swallow.
Elsewhere the 2 Spotted Redshank and 4 Green Sandpiper were still on Johnson's Marsh along with the Little Egret and 13 Teal and 2 Whimbrel and 2 Common Sandpiper were in Cornelian Bay.