The
peninsular was hit with 70 mph winds and high tides today resulting in minor
flooding and some
structural damage, but the storm was short and quick resulting in few seabirds
being seen.
The sea breaching the sea wall on the peninsula and crashing over the dunes
Offshore
16 Wigeons west, 45 Teal west, 62 Pintails west, 9 Common Scoters west, 3 Red-breasted
Mergansers west, 3 Fulmars west, 4 Red-throated Divers west, 3 Great Crested Grebes
west, 23 Kittiwakes west, 9 Little Gulls west, 2 Guillemots west and 15 Auk sp.
west.
Red-throated Diver
Others
600 Pink-footed Geese, 8 Red-breasted Mergansers, 21 Ringed Plovers, 85
Sanderlings, 3
Purple Sandpipers, 53 Black-tailed Godwits and 230 Turnstones.
Black-tailed Godwits
Purple Sandpiper
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