Jan - Scandi Herring

Sandown Canoe Lake 

23/01/22

1st winter/ juvenile  'argie'

A few angles highlight its 'retarded' moult; an almost crisp early autumn michahellis look about it - in late January! Indicates it's probably from some way north....

Jan - Sandown; Shalfleet sw

Pochard x 4, c90 tufted ducks..

Common Gull x 7  

Chillier conditions: low as 2c (winds light from the East), mostly bright. 

Parkhurst Forest on 12th: Firecrest, treecreeper, goldcrest (singing), coal tit(s), mistle thrush, bullfinch...

1w Common Gull - Ryde West Sands 12/01

Local Firecrest - 15/01

Shalfleet Sewage works 17/01/22 - a few chiffs, siskin, and a vocal Cetti's - interesting area and new to me. Tried the area around the church for hawfinch (found one there in Jan 2018) but none apparent. 

New Years Day and early January

Morning only NYD from 7:45:

(Very mild; up to 15c)

Noc mig: 8x Redwing just after midnight. 

Morning til lunch: visited Whale chine, SCP, and Yaverland. 

Black Redstart (1m) at SCP Lighthouse. Kittiwakes and auks moving. 

>Black headed gull, ringed, 2FN White, from Copenhagen, at Yaverland car park. 

About 33 species seen on the 1st. 

Other new year highlights:

Black-throated Diver off Springvale on Jan 3rd; plus GND, RedN grebe and slavs (2).

White-fronted Goose x 2 at Brading Marsh on January 5th. Marsh Harriers etc.

Barn Owl heard at Binstead on Jan 9th. 

Black red at SCP and 1st winter Common Gull at Sandown C.Lake

BT Diver: