15th April 2018

FERRING RIFE: A thorough session this morning produced a Whitethroat and a female Wheatear, as well as two Willow Warblers, a Little Egret, four Chiffchaffs, five Swallows, a Blackcap, two Meadow Pipits, four Linnets, two Pied Wagtails, a Lesser Black-backed Gull, four Mallards, three Grey Herons, a Buzzard, a Goldcrest and five Moorhens. DKC Other reports included a calling Ring Ouzel, plus on Friday a Cuckoo.

GORING GAP later in the rain revealed little other than three Meadow Pipits on a quick whizz around.

MARINE GARDENS : from 0740 to 0920 all flying east.

Red-throated Diver 4 ; Black-throated Diver one; Gannet 13; Fulmar 2; Brent Goose 235; Common Scoter 175; Red-breasted Merganser 4; Bar-tailed Godwit 2; Arctic Skua one; Sandwich Tern 19; Commic Tern 8; Little Tern 5. Also 2 GC Grebes on the sea CH