Thursday, 2nd January 2014

Another decent passage of birds offshore this morning in a spell of calm sunny weather! The main feature was a high count of Great Crested Grebes, 42 flew west which is a good count for here. Also of note was the male Hen Harrier seen again and a single Snow Bunting by the sea wall.

Offshore 
4 Shelducks west, 6 Teal west, 8 Pintails west, 21 Common Scoters west, 7 Red-breasted Mergansers west, 19 Red-throated Divers west, 42 Great Crested Grebes west, 43 Kittiwakes west, 49 Little Gulls west, 4 Guillemots west, 1 Razorbill west and 87 Auk sp. west.

Visible Migration 
1 Skylark 'in off'.

Others 
6 Goldeneyes, 1 male Hen Harrier, 1 Peregrine, 44 Ringed Plovers, 220 Golden Plovers, 1,000 Lapwings, 90 Sanderlings, 3 Purple Sandpipers, 800 Dunlins, 175 Black-tailed Godwits, 315 Turnstones, 1 Stonechat, 9 Rock Pipits and 1 Snow Bunting.
 
 Snow Bunting

Common Gulls

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