5th March 2023

 Weather:  NW force 2/3

A grey but lovely morning with the tide flooding. A busy day on the island with the highlight being a flyby Black Guillemot (heading west) but generally a morning for wildfowl as a whole. There were 64 Shelduck, a pair of Red-breasted Mergansers and a pair of Goosanders .....

 and 8 Eider .....

and a pair of Pintail flew in...

 also present were 3 Teal completing the wildfowl except for the 320 Brent around the islands and 3,000 or so Common Scoter out to sea. Eight Great Crested Grebes were also on the sea. Good numbers of waders this morning included 5,000 Knot, 10,000 Dunlin, 282 Curlew, 160 Sanderling, 120 Turnstone, 112 Grey Plover, 60 Redshank, 13 Purple Sandpiper and a single Bar-tailed Godwit. Meadow Pipits were displaying at the south end and Rock Pipits at the north end. Two Skylarks and the odd Pied Wagtails were the only small 'migrants'. 

Photos SRW