Seawatching Hollesely

06.08.2023

After yesterdays storms i thought id giove seawatching a go from Hollesley. It weren't half bad. 

Final Sea watching totals from Hollesley 9am to 1330

5 Black Tern

3 Arctic tern

6 Little Tern

1000s of Common Tern

80 Sandwich Tern

4 Arctic Skua

3 Kittiwake

9 Golden Plover

6 Dunlin

1 Caspian gull Juv

10 Common Scoter

4 Mallard

1 Whimbrel

4 Bar tailed Godwit

3 Curlew

3 Knot

4 Avocet

9 Ringed Plover

1 Med Gull Juv

1 Possible Honey Buzzard, picked up too late to be 100% but looked good.

on Scrape

9 Spoonbill

1 Green Shank 

2 Common Sand

few warblers in the Bush's

July 29th and 30th

The 2 Ruddy shelduck still, Spoonbills feeding young, 2 Raven were new in, Dunlin and a female Pintail. Wheatear still, 2 Ruff and the Greenshank. 5 Sanderling with the Ringed plover, a Mute swan ringed in Bungay. A Juv Common Tern flew up the river and visited the scrape briefly. Lastly a Common Gull had young with them, a nice breeding record for the site. 

July 27th

1 Little Stint, 8 Wigeon were new in, Juv Cuckoo and a Hobby chasing swallows but then went back to catching dragonfly's.