The
focus was again on the sea today but the morning watch was surprisingly
quiet. After the rain had cleared another watch over the high tide was much
better with lots of birds moving west out of the Bay, including
some more Skuas.
Offshore
63 Common Scoters west, 3 Red-throated Divers east, 16 Manx Shearwaters west,
25 Gannets
west, 1 Arctic Skua east, 1 Great Skua west, 2 Kittiwakes east, 42 Sandwich
Terns west,1 Common
Tern east and 3 Auk sp. west.
Further observation during late morning and early adternoon produced 4 Fulmars west, 164 Manx Shearwaters west, 167 Gannets west, 16 Grey Plovers
west, 5 Bar-tailed Godwits west, 1 light morph Pomarine Skua west at 13:55, 3
Arctic Skuas west,
34 Kittiwakes west, 13 Sandwich Terns west, 26 Arctic Terns west, 6 Guillemots
west and 134 Auk
sp. west.
Gannet
Visible
Migration
1 Swift in off & 1 north-east, 51 Swallows north, 1 Yellow
Wagtail east and 2 Meadow
Pipits north.
Grounded
Migrants
1 brown morph female Cuckoo, 45 Swifts, 65 Swallows, 65 House Martins
and 1
Wheatear.
Others:
1 Red-breasted Merganser, 1 Peregrine, 35 Ringed Plovers, 400 Knot, 180
Sanderlings, 200
Dunlins
and 130 Turnstones.
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