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14th Mar

Nothing seen on the sea at all, and the land was a fair bit better with the obvious highlight being the years first Wheatear at the Power Station. Elsewhere in the recording a Woodcock, four Snipes, a Jack Snipe, four Sparrowhawks, the first Great Spotted Woodpecker since early January, seven Redwings, a Black Redstart, a Brambling and a Siskin

A few Porpoise fed offshore. 

Elsewhere, the RSPB reserve held three Eurasian White-fronted Geese, two Bitterns and two Cattle Egrets, plus three Whooper Swans and 19 Cattle Egrets came into roost on the ARC pit. The family of three Whooper Swans were still at Scotney also.