East Haven - some of the birdlife in my monthly survey

    
Photos from my Webs Survey for March at East Haven, not all birds were photographed and the full list is at the bottom of this post. The survey doesn't require photos but depending on the light, I'll carry a suitable camera in most months.

The gull below with the ring was last seen by me on 15/6/2025 also on my Webs, it looked a better day for photographing a ring on the leg of a distant gull.

Pristine looking song birds especially the Stonechats and Meadow Pipit have fared well over the winter and will be nesting soon. Waders were moving around as the tide rose, the Sanderlings were counted from a photo at 112 with 4 Dunlin in the same flock.

Great black-backed Gull, the world's largest species of Gull, wingspan 144cm to 166cm, 57 inches to 65 inches, longer than Olive is tall!!

This may be the bird above or it's partner, it has a yellow plastic ring on it's leg with "X-068 (darvic ring, metal ring on left leg). It's very likely to have been ringed as a young bird at a nest on the Isle of May, where the species is studied. I should get more details once the ring has been recorded

Stonechat female

Stonechat male

Meadow Pipit

Pied Wagtail

Reed Bunting male

Greenfinch male

Sanderlings

Cormorant showing breeding plumage

Curlew. I read this morning of a new record age for one in the UK, it was 34 years old

Oystercatcher, hearing one or more near you soon!

Cormorant 5

Curlew 27

Dunlin 4

Eider 21

Mallard 6

Oystercatcher 25

Redshank 56

Sanderling 112

Shelduck 2

Turnstone 24

Wigeon 14

Black-headed Gull 14

Common Gull 9

Great Black-backed Gull 4

Herring Gull 39

Carrion Crow 23

Jackdaw 12

Linnet 6

Meadow Pipit 1

Pied Wagtail (yarrellii) 11

Reed Bunting 1

Rock Pipit 3

Sand Martin 2

Starling 47

Stonechat 2