Splash Point & Cuckmere Haven 3/5/15

A vast improvement on the seawatch this morning (the first ten minutes were better then yesterdays six hours) with a small movement of Skuas and Terns. The Head was covered in fog all day so I didn't fancy walking up there. The Cuckmere again wasn't too bad with a small increase in Waders, but nothing spectacular.

Totals for Splash Point 5.30-12.30 are:

Black Tern - 7
Little Tern - 32
Commic Tern - 396
Arctic Tern - 30+
Sandwich Tern - 109
Arctic Skua - 13
Great Skua - 7
Grey Plover - 30
Dunlin - 12
Sanderling - 4 (all s/p)
Whimbrel - 20
Bar-tailed Godwit - 42
Gannet - 120+
Little Gull - 2 (one first summer)
Mediterranean Gull - 2 (both 1st summer)
Common Scoter - 267
Tufted Duck - 1
Brent Geese - 72
Black-throated Diver - 1 s/p
Red-throated Diver - 2

Cuckmere Haven
Grey Plover - 1 flew north calling
Common Sandpiper - 1 on scrape
Dunlin - 3 flew north
Bar-tailed Godwit - 10
Whimbrel - 10
Sand Martin - 2

 Bar-tailed Godwit in the Cuckmere

 dark phase Arctic Skua

three Great Skuas