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The coast was obviously the best place today, given the other foggy reports. It was Bright and sunny all day, but the receding tide froze on the beach.
Yellow Hammers have numbered around a dozen for most of the winter at Brickyard Lane, but party has now increased to 30+ feeding in the outer dunes.
Reed Buntings also up to 8
Meadow pipit, 5 an unusual bird in the winter here
Skylark, 35 and new to the area. All the above birds in the new dune/marsh system made for welcome viewing, but all due to the cold weather.
Twite 50 in the samphire
Sparrowhawk making sorties across the area.
Woodcock, 2 but these have been present in the dunes all winter.
Redwing, 2
Fieldfare, 1
Song thrush, 1. Perhaps the thrushes might not be considered worthy of note, but with no buckthorn or hawthorn berries, they are also new to the area, which is normally full of birds at this time of year.
Carrion Crow, 40+. Again, in the winter, crows peak at 240+, but they typically feed on buckthorn as well as the beach
Most other passerines seem to be in feeding our garden rather than the dunes, with Blackbirds 16+, Greenfinches 2, chaffinches 35+, tree sparrows 8, etc
There were no ducks or divers on the sea, but there were 24+ cormorants
Waders included 450+ curlew, 28 sanderling, 22 oyster catchers, 8 bar-tailed godwits and 3 grey plovers.
Herring gull, 2000+, along with 28 great black-backed gulls and a few common and black-headed gulls. However, the evening roost of common gulls has been around 1,200 recently.
(Whooper Swans), 24 flew out to roost on the sands at dusk. They were distant to view, but sounded like whoopers, not Bewicks, but faint in the distance.
Regards
Cliff
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