Weekend round-up

The highlight of this weekend was the first good autumn seawatch at Selsey Bill with 13 Balearic Shearwaters (now called Mediterranean Shearwater and lumped with Yelkouan Shearwater in the new AviList global taxonomy HERE) but I missed it all as had promised Jacob that I would play Monopoly and Chess with him this morning- and he beat me at Chess to boot. I still need any species of shearwater for the Peninsula and Manx and Balearic were seen today so hopefully I catch up with them at some point this autumn.  

I did manage to get a couple of hours at Church Norton yesterday evening HERE where the highlights were a cracking juvenile Kittiwake and a nice summer plumage Knot.

The moth traps were much quieter this morning after the cold front, rain and wind that brought the shearwaters in moved across the region last night. It was a lot busier on Saturday morning with over 120 species including my first Saltmarsh Plume. Now on 598 for the Lodge and 487 for the year. 

Juvenile Kittiwake

Adult Little Tern- quite a few juveniles have fledged now too 

Adult Sandwich Tern with Sand eel 

Juvenile Sandwich Tern 

Summer plumage Knot 

What looks like a juvenile Yellow-legged Gull (although not sure if can rule out juvenile Lesser Black-back on this view?) 

Whimbrel and Sand Martins- around 200 Sand Martins appeared over the harbour in the evening

Saltmarsh Plume - a lifer