Sunday, 1 January 2023

2023 - WTE - Ventnor

New Year's day:

Out working today, but came home for lunch, at which point a White-tailed Eagle drifted over as I was walking home (Ventnor). Saw it cause some commotion (local herring gulls, corvids, and a buzzard, mobbing it) before it flew out of sight over the downs and northwards. I haven't seen that many WTEs along the island's south coast since they were released nigh on four years ago; this being probably the fifth or sixth sighting in the Ventnor area (for me anyway)...



First Sea Watch of the year (03/01/23) at St. Catherine's Point:
Mild (11c), breezy [F7-8], light rain, SSW. 08:10 - 10:30am. 
Kittiwakes were steadily trickling by...and fulmars into double figures..






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