We joined RAB and sea-watched from 05.50-11.30. We were joined for some of the sea-watch by , RHC, LP, RE, RKH, RES and KH. LP had covered radio mast bushes to the Old Trapping Area, and Shooters Bottom and RE covered Birling lane and Whitbread Hollow.
A much slower sea-watch compared to yesterday, but reasonable numbers of Bar-tailed Godwits moving, another good movement of Mediterranean Gulls and a superb Pomarine Skua.
Once again the birding sites were quiet although our first Nightingale of the year was in full song in Whitbread Hollow which was a previous breeding site for this species.
Red-throated Diver 5 E
Gannet c35 E
Little Egret 5 Birling beach
Brent Geese 9 E
Shelduck 3 E
Gadwall 1 E
Teal 27 E
Pintail 3 E
Shoveler 5 E
Common Scoter 429 E
Common Buzzard 1
Kestrel 1
Peregrine 1 hunting out to sea
Bar-tailed Godwit 525 E
Whimbrel 37 E
Pomarine Skua 1 @ 07.13
Arctic Skua 11 E
Great Skua 3 E
Mediterranean Gull 101 E
Black-headed Gull 26 E
Common Gull 16 E
Sandwich Tern 18 E
Green Woodpecker 1 Whitbread Hollow
Sand Martin 1 in off the sea
Swallow 3 in off the sea
Nightingale 1 singing in Whitbread Hollow
Wheatear 1 Birling
Song Thrush 2 Hollow
Lesser Whitethroat 1 Whitbread Hollow
Common Whitethroat c15
Blackcap 4
Chiffchaff 4
Bottle-nosed Dolphin 1 off Birling
