Monday, 13th February 2014

The highlight of today was a fabulous array of large Gulls,the continuing presence of the weekend's Glaucous Gull was joined by an Iceland Gull and 2 Yellow-legged Gulls. Larid heaven!

Offshore 
36 Common Scoters west, 12 Red-breasted Mergansers, 13 Red-throated Divers west, 3 Great Crested Grebes west, 3 Kittiwakes west, 2 Little Gulls west, 4 Guillemots west, 1 Razorbill west and 15 Auk sp. west.

Others
400 Teal, 5 Goldeneyes, 4 Red-breasted Mergansers, 1 Little Egret, 1 Buzzard, 1 Merlin, 1 Peregrine, 46 Ringed Plovers, 160 Sanderlings, 2 Purple Sandpipers, 250 Black-tailed Godwits, 270 Turnstones, 1 Med. Gull, 2 Yellow-legged Gulls, 1 Iceland Gull, 1 Glaucous Gull, 1 Goldcrest, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Stonechat and 23 Twite.
 
 Glaucous Gull

Yellow-legged Gull

Iceland Gull playing hide and seek!

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