Four of us put quite a bit of time into searching for this bird today around the harbour, as also did the police patrol birder! Yet it was seen there and earlier on Red Nab by visiting birders. I suspect it must have been sitting on the Fishers quay behind an object, rendering it about the only place not visible from the south harbour end
Chough - in the half moon bay fields lunchtime and in the sheep(less now?) fields mid afternoon
Stonechat - female NE corner of OE saltmarsh
Merlin - female seen near half moon bay cafe
Med Gull - adult behind the dredger may have been the Czech bird also seen along the north wall
Third successive day of no Brent Goose sightings despite coverage of the usual sites
