Friday, 8 March 2024

March 8th

On a sunny morning with a fresh easterly breeze blowing we spent an hour and a half completing and underwhelming seawatch at Reculver. We counted 140 Common Scoter sitting on the sea out by the red buoy, 13 Red-throated Divers, 8 Great Crested Grebes, 2 Gannets, 23 Black-headed Gulls E, 130 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 6 Common Gulls E, 2 Great Black-backed Gulls E, 4 Ringed Plover, 4 Sanderling, 1 Guillemot E, 2 Oystercatchers, 2 Shelduck, 1 Rock Pipit and 1 Grey Heron.

We then walked inland and saw 2 Cetti's Warblers, 9 Cormorants, 14 Tufted Duck, 9 Gadwall, 1 Little Grebe, 7 Mallard, 2 nesting Grey Herons, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 8 Coot and 1 Kestrel.

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