4th March 2023

 Weather:  ENE force 0/1     overcast and cool

A nice early morning as the tide flooded. the regulars this last few months did not let us down, there were 7 Eider and 5 Goosander while the Brent arrived as the tide approached, 220 were counted. Some of the Common Scoter (2,600 today) were close in with the Eider.

Signs of spring were all around with singing Wrens, Linnets and Meadow Pipts, also Rock Pipits displaying in 3 places over the 2 main islands.

 The Daffodils are now at their best.

  Good numbers of waders were logged around the islands : 220 Turnstones

 Some of them mixed with the 12 Purple Sandpipers and the 200 or so Dunlin that fed locally.

Other large counts included 4,500 Knot, 317 Curlew and 100 Sanderling. As usual the 2 confiding Robins stole the limelight for observers on the island,

but also present this morning were 8 Wrens, a couple of Song Thrushes and a total of 5 Blackbirds.

Apart from the 2,600 Scoters, the highlight of the sea were 32 Great Crested Grebes. Just a single Little Egret today and a lone Peregrine. 

 Photos CJW