Saturday 9 January 2021

9th January 2021

 Weather: S force 1, W force 2 in the afternoon

A female Eider was present today,

 other wildfowl were 92 Common Scoter, 206 pale-bellied Brent and a single dark-bellied bird, with 2 colour ringed individuals showing well.

Many types of waders were around including 240 Sanderling, 194 Turnstone, 5 Purple Sandpipers, 84 Grey Plover, 24 Bar-tailed Godwits. 

A Siskin was a passage bird, while probable winter residents were a male and female Blackbird, 2 Robins and 2 Rock Pipits. Noted on the sea was a Red-throated Diver and 3 Great Crested Grebes, while shore birds included a Grey heron, a Little Egret.


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