Sightings31/10/2020

Harbour Update – posted 31/10/20

Brands Bay featured a Great White Egret and 3 Black-necked Grebe, accompanied by a winter cast of GreenshankDark-bellied Brent GooseGrey PloverLapwingBlack-tailed GodwitDunlinOystercatcher and usual wildfowl. The Brent Geese are beginning to build in numbers around the harbour now, with a small flock c.15 strong also recorded along the Hamworthy shoreline. Jerry’s Point logged a further 34 Ringed Plover, 27 Turnstone, 18 Dunlin, 13 Oystercatcher, 15 Redshank, 2 Curlew, 1 Great Northern Diver and good count of Great Crested Grebe in out in South Deep. The Merlin was observed hunting over the Middlebere saltmarsh again this afternoon.

Great White Egret – Brand’s Bay – Gary Hayman

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