Thursday, 9th March 2017

The first good bird of the spring was found this afternoon, a cracking Chough. IG pulled up on to his drive at 1:00 pm, got out of the car and heard a Chough calling; the bird was circling high over the promenade and showing well in the excellent light. It drifted off east and was lost over the Mount.
 
 Chough

Offshore
40 Common Scoters west, 8 Red-breasted Mergansers, 14 Red-throated Divers east, 2 Auk sp. west and 3 Kittiwakes east. Also 1 Atlantic Grey Seal.

Visible Migration
11 Curlews east, 1 Chough high east at 1:00 pm, 1 Coal Tit east - vocal bird high over the dunes, 2 Grey Wagtails east, 14 Alba Wagtails north-east and 11 Meadow Pipits north-east.
 
 Chough (above & below)



Grounded Migrants
6 Stonechats.

Others
115 Wigeons, 2 Goldeneyes, 1 Water Rail, 7 Grey Plovers, 22 Ringed Plovers, 240 Black-tailed Godwits, 155 Turnstones, 75 Sanderlings, 65 Dunlins, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 1 Iceland Gull, 1 Glaucous Gull, 1 Peregrine and 2 Cetti's Warblers.

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