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| Author: | Nige Lound [ Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:53 am ] |
| Post subject: | 3 days at Gib |
The 17th, 18th and 19th Sept were spent at Gib in the pleasurable company of Andy SIMS. Although the promised good birding weather didn’t materialise the following is a summary of our combined sightings. On all 3 days there were Gannets all over the place. Heading south, north, fishing offshore and just loafing about on the sea. Most of the seabirds were heading south 17th September Sea watch from 1300 to 1715 then Tennysons Sands from 1730 to 1845 Arctic Skua 19 Red Throated Diver 11 (all summer plumage) Auk sp 25 Manx Shearwater 7 south Little Gull 2 Arctic Tern 20 Common Tern 8 Little Tern 1 Tennysons Sands Teal 35 Shoveler 12 Snipe 6 Dunlin 22 Ruff 1 Little Stint 1 Pintail 3 Common Sand 1 Little Egret 9 into roost on Jackson’s Marsh 18th September Sea watch from 0700 to 1300 then checked all the hides. 1700 to 1900 another sea watch Arctic Skua 42 Bonxie 12 UID Skua 4 Red Throated Diver 18 Kittiwake 2 Common Scoter 95 Teal 13 Wigeon 6 Shelduck 4 Sooty Shearwater 4 Manx Shearwater 4 Balearic Shearwater 1 north close in Arctic Tern 28 Auk sp 12 Guillemot 4 Little Gull 1 Great Crested Grebe 1 Marsh Harrier 1 in off Grey Wagtail 2 Lesser Redpoll 1 Fieldfare 1 Siskin 6 Kestrel 2 Sparrowhawk 1 Common Buzzard 1 A juvenile Temmincks Stint on Tennysons Sands early afternoon which hung around long enough for Ed MACKRILL to add it to his impressive “green list!†Fieldfare 1 in east dunes 19th September Sea watch from 0700 to 0930 and 1600 to 1745 Arctic Skua 43 Red Throated Diver 34 Common Scoter 34 Wigeon 35 Pintail 23 Teal 23 Little Gull 12 Kittiwake 2 Auk sp 77 Guillemot 4 Razorbill 2 Manx Shearwater 1 Shearwater sp 2 Great Crested Grebe 2 A distant large raptor at sea at 0840 was probably a Honey Buzzard but the distance prevented a positive ID unfortunately! 0930 to 1115 checked the saltings and lagoons at north end of reserve Siskin 4 Grey Wag 1 Pied Wag 5 Mipit 10 Greenshank 3 Ruff 1 Dunlin 120 Knot 58 Curlew Sandpiper 11 1130 to 1300 Tennysons Sands Golden Plover 160 briefly Blackwit 152 Avocet 3 Little Stint 1 Dunlin 40 Greenshank 3 A stroll around Aylmer clearing, Meads and the East Dunes confirmed just how quiet things were so 1600 saw us watching the sea again! A Water Rail was seen briefly in flight adjacent to Bulldog Bank and a Wheatear was on Mill Pond Road 16 Curlew Sands were present on the northernmost lagoon until dusk yesterday evening (20th Sept) Regards Nige |
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