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Saturday 29 March 2014

Splash Point & Climping 29/3/14

A lengthy seawatch for starters before twitching the Hoopoe at Climping. Good movement this morning with plenty of variety. Totals between 05.30-13.00 are:

Black-necked Grebe - 5 (groups of 2 & 3)
Arctic Skua - 5 (incl. 1 bird literally 20ft in front of us)
Barnacle Goose - 1
Brent Geese - 269
Common Scoter - 882
Teal - 12
Pintail - 8
Eider - 4
Red-breasted Merganser - 30
Mallard - 2
Shoveler - 44
Red-throated Diver - 41
Gannet - 80
Little Gull - 56
Sandwich Tern - 92
Redshank - 4
Dunlin - 4
Canada Geese - 8
Shelduck - 11
Bar-tailed Godwit - 1
Chiffchaff - 1 landed on breakwater

Ballifscourt, Climping

HOOPOE - 1 showed reasonably in small field north of hotel

 Hoopoe at Climping
 Barnacle Goose with Brent Geese past Splash Point
Shoveler past Splash Point