Sunday 12th – Paul M – quiet but saw a flock of 14 Canada geese and surprisingly a single fulmar high over the Stay’s heading East, a 1st for Paull for me
Sunday 4th June – Paul M– quiet, first emperor dragonfly of the year, also meadow brown.
Pied wagtail – Paul M
Saturday 3rd June – Paul M – Great crested grebe on river, a red kite drifted low over the pond and strays.
Red Kite – Paul M
Saturday 27th May – Paul M 2 common scoter, 2 avocet, drake tufted duck, good numbers of damselfly around pond, 3 four-spot chaser.
Terrapin – Car Park Pond – Paul M
Friday 19th May – Simon – 6 common tern, 6 arctic tern, 1 arctic skua, 11 common scoter, 2 sanderling, 9 knot, 1 short-eared owl.
Monday 15th May –Paul M – 21 turnstone, 9 sanderling, 30+ house martin, 3 whimbrel, 1 common tern.
Distant Sanderling – Paul M
Sunday 14th May – Paul M – 9 kittiwake drifted East on the falling tide.
Saturday 13th May – Paul M – Wheatear, 4 avocet, 3 barnacle geese, 2 knot, 2 sanderling, common tern, 2 cuckoo. A common redstart was present for a few days in a local garden but not seen today.
Barnacle goose – Peter M
Reed Bunting – Paul M
Friday 12th May – Paul M – 6 house martin, 2 swift, 13 black tailed godwit, common sandpiper, 3 whimbrel, 13 singing reed warbler, 9 singing sedge warbler, 2 yellow wagtail.
Sedge Warbler – Paul M
Wednesday 10th May – Paul M – 3 whimbrel, 11 turnstone, greenshank.
Turnstone – Paul M
Turnstone – Paul M
Sunday 7th May – Paul M – 16+ swift, 20+ swallow, 1 house martin, 2 wheatear, yellow wagtail.
Friday 5th May – Simon – 1 wheatear, 1 garden warbler, 2 lesser whitethroat, 3 fieldfare, 1 short-eared owl, 1 tree sparrow, 2 avocet, 10 whimbrel
Monday 1st May – Simon – 126 arctic tern, 30 common tern, 11 black tern, 1 little tern, 2 pintail, 8 whimbrel, 9 bar-tailed godwit, 2 avocet, 1 greenshank, 2 common sandpiper, 1 knot, 1 common scoter, 5 wheatear, 4 yellow wagtail, 1 cuckoo, 1 common seal
Meadow Pipit – Paul M
‘X’ Rated Hares! – Simon
Wheatear – Simon
Sunday 30th April – Simon – 516 arctic tern, 70 common tern, 18 commic tern, 76 black tern, 2 sandwich tern, all east. 22 whimbrel, 35 bar-tailed godwit, 8 knot, 1 shag, 8 common scoter, 1 yellow wagtail, 1 wheatear, 3 redwing at fort and 2 fieldfare east.
Sandwich Tern – Simon
Common & Black Terns – Simon
Common tern – Simon
Black Tern – Simon
Saturday 29th April – Simon – 3 arctic tern, 11 commic tern, yellow-legged gull, 5 whimbrel, common sandpiper, 18 black-tailed godwit, 4 bar-tailed godwit, 3 snipe, 1 common scoter, 4 yellow wagtail, 3 wheatear, 2 willow warbler. Grey seal, weasel
Friday 28th April – Simon – 1 great-crested grebe, 6 common scoter, 1 yellow-legged gull, 3 whimbrel, 1 short-eared owl, 2 yellow wagtail, 5 wheatear, male bullfinch at fort.
Saturday 22nd April – 2 singing common whitethroat, 8 swallow, 2 blackcap, chiffchaff, willow warbler, good views of a short eared owl over main stray, singing reed warbler, singing sedge warbler, 2 little egret, 2 whimbrel. update from Simon – 2 yellow wagtail, 1 house martin, 2 cuckoo, 2 tree sparrow,
Crow & Stock Dove – Paul M
Tuesday 18th April – Paul – 2 little egret, common buzzard and hunting barn owl.
Kestrel & Goldfinch – Paul M
Dunnock & Linnet – Paul M
Monday 17th – peregrine, short-eared owl, c500 grey plover from hide, 3 little egret, 5 swallow, cuckoo calling near farm, single singing common whitethroat, tawny owl in flight behind the church.
Short-eared owl – Peter M
Saturday 15th – Simon – 2 wheatear, 1 white wagtail, 1 brambling, 3 swallow, 3 whimbrel, 21 knot, 90 bar-tailed godwit, c1,000 grey plover, 1 painted lady
Friday 14th April – Paul – Single swallow, 4 sand martin, marsh harrier, a single brambling, kingfisher feeding on small pond, peregrine, whimbrel and 2 porpoise.
Thursday 13th – Simon – 1 white wagtail, 1 swallow, 2 canada goose, 1 willow warbler, 1 painted lady, 1 speckled wood
White Wagtail – Simon
Reed Bunting – Simon
Sunday 9th – 3 chiffchaff, bullfinch, willow warbler, blackcap, little egret, heron pied wagtail, 2 greater-spotted woodpecker – Simon – 12 sandwich tern
Linnet – Peter M
Greater-spotted woodpecker – Peter M
Friday 7th – Simon – 2 swallow, 1 chiffchaff, 3 blackcap, 1 avocet, 3 short-eared owl east of hide
Short-eared owl – Simon
Monday 3rd – Paul – Singing chiffchaff and blackcap, a small flock of redwing, distant marsh harrier and a little egret.
Sunday 2nd – Paul – A single goldcrest, 2 singing blackcap, several hundred grey plover, a single sand martin and a small flock of siskin over.
Saturday 1st -Paul – 40+ redwing around, 7 mute swans along river, distant common buzzard and marsh harriers, 15 turnstone, a single sand martin passed, singing blackcap and close views of a short eared owl.
Friday 31st – Simon – 202 pink-footed goose, 12 avocet, 1 chiffchaff, 1 black-cap
Sunday 26th March – from Paul – Quiet, good views of a perched peregrine and 2 marsh harriers on the other side of the river
Water rail ditch – Peter M
Saturday 25th – singing chiffchaff, great-spotted woodpercker, tawny owl church yard, 20 avocet on haven. update from Simon – 2 bullfinch fort Paull, short-eared owl on S side of river and again on strays, barn owl.
Tawny owl – Peter M
Friday 24th – from Simon – 2 male eider east mid river, 1 imm male merlin, 2 yellowhammer, 6 small tortoiseshell
Monday 20th – from Paul – 30+ redwing flock in woods, marsh harrier, 29 turnstone and a goldcrest
Sunday 12th – from Paul – 12 siskin overhead, 12 turnstone, good numbers of common snipe, 6 redwing and good views of the water rail again
Water rail – Paul M
Saturday 11th – from Paul – 2 avocet on strays, a single yellowhammer, several little egrets and good views of the water rail in ditch near riding school.
Friday 10th – from Simon – short-eared owl, imm merlin, juv peregrine, 4 mazrsh harrier, 2 water rail, 60 pink-footed goose, 2 redwing
Chaffinch – Paul M
Sunday 5th – 2 marsh harrier, buzzard over south bank, cormorant. From Simon – 1st winter mail common scoter off fishermans car park.
Cormorant – Peter M
Saturday 4th – Paul & Simon – 3 short-eared owls, 1 merlin (took a lapwing over main stray!), 2 marsh harrier, 1 water rail, 2 stonechat, 1 common scoter, 15 shoveler, 280 pink-footed goose, 1 sanderling
Sunday 26th – Simon – 2 male shoveler, 2 marsh harrier, 7 rock pipit
Friday 24th February – Paul & Simon – 5 common buzzard, 2 marsh harrier, hunting barn owl near the farm and good views of 3 short eared owls mainly along the flood bank near the hide, water rail in same place as 18th.
Sunday 19th February – Paul – Quiet with a single goldeneye past.
Saturday 18th – water rail in ditch on main stray opposite stables, 24 fieldfare over, marsh harrier, sparrowhawk, wigeon, teal, 400+ pink-footed goose
Sunday 12th – Simon– 2 male goldeneye
Saturday 11th – Simon – 2 male goldeneye off lighthouse, 1 female merlin
Sunday 5th – Paul – Chiffchaff in woods, 3 mistle thrush over
Saturday 4th – Simon – 1 male goldeneye, 1 great crested grebe east off village
Bird List and Stats updated for 2016
Sunday 29th – Simon – 3 white-fronted goose, 800+ pink-footed goose, 9 goldeneye, 2 merlin, peregrine, 3 marsh harrier
Goldeneye – Simon
Saturday 28th – Simon – 175 white-fronted goose (18 on strays basin), 954 pink-footed goose, 121 greylag, 3 common scoter east, water rail on strays near stables
White-fronted geese – Simon
Saturday 21st – Paul & Simon – slavonian grebe from lighthouse
Slavonian grebe – Paul M
Slavonian grebe – Simon
Sunday 15th – Simon – 1 tree sparrow, 1 yellowhamme, 2 stonechat, 1 coal tit, 2 marsh harrier, 2 buzzard
Sunday 8th – 9 fieldfare over, 2 marsh harrier, rock pipit, 2 skylark, coal tit, sparrowhawk, 19 black tailed godwit. update from Simon – chiffchaff, coal tit, stonechat, 2 kingfisher
Saturday 7th from Paul & Simon – 2 rock pipit, merlin, 200+ greylags, large flock of fieldfare with odd redwing, 9 yellowhammer, stonechat, jack snipe, small flock of rook, 2 bullfinch. A fox seen as well as roe deer, rabbit and hare. 24 white-fronted goose (European race) feeding in field near car park
Tuesday 3rd – from Paul – Marsh harrier, 40+ bar tailed godwit, 4 knot, goldcrest.
Tuesday 29th – from Paul –36 white-fronted goose (European Race) in fields to left of bank from pond car park update from Simon – 21 tufted duck west
White-fronted geese – Paul M
White-fronted geese – Paul M
Tuesday 27th – from Simon – 5 whooper swan, 56 pink -footed goose, 2 marsh harrier, 1 peregrine, 5 rock pipit, 24 fieldfare.
Strays – PeterM
Tuesday 20th – from Simon – 1 water rail, 2 barn owl, female merlin, 2 marsh harrier, peregrine
Saturday 10th – 2 marsh harrier, peregrine, c.1000 lapwing, sparrowhawk, several large flocks of fieldfare over c. 500 in total
Friday 9th – from Simon – woodcock near gas palnt, 175 fieldfare, 3 marsh harrier, 1 peregrine, 1 merlin, 2 pink-footed goose, hybrid shelduck
Sunday 4th – from Simon – 5 gadwall, 3 marsh harrier, 1 peregrine
Saturday 3rd – from Simon – 3 marsh harrier, 1 peregrine, 1000 pink footed goose, 4 rock pipit
