HARD SLOG

 Hard slog 10hrs birding today with a few bits about nice to see bearded tits again behind the sportsman.as the tide was coming in a nice ruff on the surf

picking up a whinchat and wheatear is always a bonus,with the brent geese increasing to over five hundred birds mainly all adults 

WOULD YOU ADAM AND EVE IT

 Finishing work today and heading to the patch for my normal few hours before heading home,parked the car and walked up the track checking the bushes as you few blue tits and gold finches and a squeal from a cettis,just going up the slope i heard a high pitch call straight away i knew it was a yellow brown warbler,so i headed back and up the ridge it was sitting on top of a bush 

nicely marked and showing well,put straight on the local groups,a patch first for me and mike is away showing of and on for a good few mintues 

then just just vanished but when the locals turn up it called a few times and showed distantly

WHAT A WEEKEND

 What a weekend with finding a kentish plover on saturday,what would sunday bring 72 arctic skuas         7 pom skuas 19 arctic terns 19 black terns etc then 15 manx shearwaters

monday morning with the wind increasing and NNE it could go either way guillemot first thing and a few brent geese and at 8.47 puffin west few more guillemot then couple of rock pipits dropped in,later on scanning the sea sooty shearwater pass shellness and  at 12.36 puffin on sea,then went very quiet,in all a good couple of weeks off

med gull

rock pipit

knot

CLOUD NUMBER NINE

 What a week, patching birding has many many lows and not many highs BUT when the highs happens it is like being on cloud number nine,late this afternoon mike turns up and i was scanning the island and counting the ring plovers and just called KENTISH PLOVER this the first view i had and it made mike doubt the shout

but when you look with a btx it always seems closer lol lol,we edge closer and closer and got some brillant views

then all the birds got up and flew past but landed a bit further away

just before i left my 2nd osprey sighting of the was just catching its tea

what a blinding golden patch at moment the last kentish plover at seasalter  was found by mike 9/8/2010 and the long rock bird was 28/3/2013 

PATCH BIRDING AT IT BEST

 Few birds from this week and last bringing my yearly total for seasalter 158 and still the best time to come,the manx was a big bonus lucky enough there at the right time found by my friend andy,school boy error on the glossy ibis picked them up flying across from the cormorant roost,thinking they was cormorants penny dropped when they flew over the wall in front of me lol

2 little stints and curlew sand which later turned into 3 

brent goose

shrill carder

kingfisher

juv hobby

manxs shearwater

glossy ibis