Osprey perching on pole, looking for fish in mouth of the Welland! This is a Patch and County First for me!
Tried to inform a boat party on the Boston Belle by yelling the sighting to the passengers as they sailed by about five minutes after I saw it through the scope! Nice of one of them to take a photo of me too! Am I really that famous now?
Marsh Harrier seen over the fields just inland close to the North Sea Camp Prison Officers' accommodation block and Kestrel on posts as I walked back to where my parents were picking me up.
Also:
Common Tern - hundreds diving for fish etc with some losing breeding plumage
Little Tern - 2 perched on rocks
Little Egret - 9 or so on salt marsh
Black-headed Gull - many now in winter plumage
Oystercatcher - thousands everywhere
Curlew - steady passage
Dunlin - few small flocks passing through
Knot - 3 small groups with about 10 in each
Whimbrel - 2 small groups heading south
Turnstone - 1 on rocks just in front of the Cut End Bird Hide
Ringed/Little Ringed Plover - large group of about 200 off Tab's Head
Swallow - 30
Shelduck - 20
Large mixed flock of Herring and Greater Black-backed Gull
** VANDALISM ALERT ** - whoever 'Moses' and 'Robbo' are, it's not big, clever, necessary or funny for you two idiots to mark your 'woz 'ere' presence with blue spray paint all over the exterior/interior of the hide! Hope these two brainless oafs weren't behind the Frampton vandalism!