Cool, cloudy and dry, NE 4 - Another nippy morning for our Ted walk commenced at Kerton Road quarry where the high tide wader roost comprised 110 Oystercatchers, 23 Curlews and a Ringed Plover amongst 50, mostly immature, large gulls, plus two Mediterranean Gulls overhead calling. There was no sign of the Red-crested Pochards, while the Sheldrake continues to tag along with the Egyptian Goose family. A steady trickle of north-bound Swallows hurried across the peninsula this morning. We then walked across the Desert, through the Trapping Area and back along the Long Pits noting very few birds apart from my first Garden Warbler of spring singing from a willow thicket by the wigwams, plus several Lesser Whitethroats and the usual Blackcaps and Common Whitethroats. Moving onto Lade, with the sun breaking through, and where several each of Sedge, Reed and Cetti`s Warblers, Chiffchaff, Lesser and Common Whitethroats and another Garden Warbler were in fine voice around the ponds.
Yesterdays Ted walk, once the rain had stopped, took us through the Long Pits to the point, where very little was happening apart from a Peregrine perched on a pylon and a Black Redstart singing from the power station. We then joined the seawatchers in the hide for an hour where a brisk south-easterly delivered a few close Gannets, Whimbrel and Barwits, but most of the seabirds were way offshore, including a trickle of commic terns, auks, three Brents, four Red-throated and a Black-throated Diver, three Manx Shearwaters, four Arctic Skuas and a Bonxie.
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