Very little birding since last I blogged. Things just get in the way, 'tis most vexing. Lots of running around, but not for birds. It's scandalous, I tell you.
Thursday afternoon I was able to swing past Blackball for dusk; despite there having been a reasonable front through earlier, the weather had really cleared and the sea was pretty calm. In fact it was in that intensely irritating balance of soft light and low chop which excels at hiding birds...
Close in it was mirror calm, though, and so I saw a bit.
15 GNDs, 2 [more distant] RTDs, 22 GC Grebes, 20 Kittiwakes, and 7 auks - 2 close enough to be Guillemots - were inshore of a gull roost of 1100+
The gulls were well out, so the figure is a definite understatement [not least as gulls were still arriving steadily as I left!] and no chance of picking anything sexy out from them..
This afternoon I had a very quick look at the Harbour, where a frickin barge had somehow got into the Inner Harbour - photo now here! - complete with Big Boss Crane and a tug! It was very quiet, with nothing better than Shags visible on the sea [when it wasn't tipping down] and only 4 Purple Sands on Haldon Pier [now re-opened and shock- aside from the yachties' ex-flagpoles - fully serviceable].
Big crane, big barge, little blue tug.
How did they get over the cill, never mind between the Towers of the Teeth?!?
Finally, two new visitors to the Garden today; two male Blackcaps. In very quick succession, or more likely, in a chase.
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