Friday, 3rd January 2014

Strong winds and a high tide meant all eyes where on the sea today and the highlight was an unseasonal Leach`s Petrel that flew west during the morning.

Offshore 
46 Wigeons west, 32 Teal west, 37 Pintails west, 23 Common Scoters west, 4 Red-breasted Mergansers, 12 Red-throated Divers west, 1 Leach`s Petrel west at 10:53, 1 2CY Shag on the sea late afternoon, 12 Great Crested Grebes west, 35 Kittiwakes west, 130 Little Gulls west - most of these were over the sewage outlet late afternoon, 1 Guillemot west and 42 Auk sp.west.
 
 Little Gulls (above and below)



Others 
19 Red-breasted Mergansers, 1 Peregrine, 37 Ringed Plovers, 800 Knots, 280 Sanderlings, 4 Purple Sandpipers, 260 Turnstones and 1 Stonechat.

Eider

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