Back out this afternoon for a couple of hours from 15:30 produced.

Merlin - 1 bread lane
Grey Wagtail - 1
Rock Pipit - 1
Brent Geese - 18w 2e
Gannet - 2e
Shag - 1 os
Great-crested Grebe - 3 os
Common Scoter - 2e
Eider - 1e
Oystercatcher - 21
Kestrel - 1
Grey Partridge - 6

Rock Pipit Climping Beach

Grey Wagtail Atherington Pools

Plenty of movement over the golf course this morning, with the highlights being a Short-eared Owl and four Ring Ouzels that showed well. Still plenty of hirundine around and an increase in Robin and Song Thrush numbers.

Short-eared Owl - 1
Ring Ouzel -  golf course & mill
Stonechat - 11
Chiffchaff - 22
Blackcap - 13
Goldcrest - 5
Song Thrush - 15
Pied Wagtail - c.150
Meadow Pipit - 70
Goldfinch - c.170
Linnet - c.100
Siskin - 4
Reed Bunting - 5
Skylark - 30
Wheatear - 5
Little Egret - 5
Grey Heron - 2
Brent Geese - 2w 3e
Jay - 2
Buzzard - 2
Sparrowhawk - 1
Kestrel - 2

Ring Ouzel golf course

Wheatear

Covering Climping beach from the car park up to Poole Place this morning produced the following.

Brent Geese - 9w 5e
Razorbill - 1e
Shag - 1 os
Great-crested Grebe - 2e 1os
Wigeon - 18e
Gannet - 12 offshore
Curlew - 3
Ringed Plover - 1
Sanderling - 1
Oystercatcher - 7
Mediterranean Gull - 30
Sandwich Tern - 2e 1w
Cormorant - 35 6e
Little Egret - 1
Grey Heron - 1
Sparrowhawk - 1
Kestrel - 1
Linnet - c.250
Meadow Pipit - 35
Siskin - 4
Grey Wagtail - 1
Yellow Wagtail - 1
Pied Wagtail - 29
Wheatear - 2
Stonechat - 3
Chiffchaff - 9
Blackcap - 2
Skylark - 4
Green Woodpecker - 1


Yesterday 3rd Oct with good numbers of Finches on the move and still good numbers of both Swallow and House Martin moving.

Siskin - 32
Goldfinch - c.250
Linnet - c.100
Chiffchaff - c.60
Meadow Pipit - 55
Blackcap - 20
Stonechat - 12
Reed Bunting - 6
Pied Wagtail - 24
Skylark - 9
Wheatear - 5
Grey Wagtail - 1
Little Egret - 3
Grey Heron - 1
Sandwich Tern - 2w
Grey Partridge - 2
Great-spotted Woodpecker - 1
Peregrine - 1
Buzzard - 1
Kestrel - 3
Jay - 1

Meadow Pipit

Reed Bunting

Dozen Spoonbills

The highlight of a miserable wet morning was easily a dozen or so Spoonbill drifting west over Poole Place in a heavy shower.

Spoonbill - 12w
Brent Geese - 7w
Great-crested Grebe - 3 os
Wigeon - 1w
Commic Tern - 2
Sandwich Tern - 7w
Gannet - 5w
Med Gull - 8w
Wheatear - 9
Chiffchaff - c.50
Goldcrest - 4
Blackcap - 27
Stonechat - 5
Spotted Fly - 1
Whitethroat - 3
Linnet - c.250
Meadow Ppit c.75
Skylark - 7
Buzzard - 1
Grey Partridge - 3
Sparrowhawk - w
Kestrel - 1
Ringed Plover - 6
Dunlin - 1n
Sanderling - `19w

Seven and a half Spoonbill over Poole Place