Tuesday, 25th February 2014

A nice sunny morning produced a trickle of migration before the wind picked up. The bird of the day was a Glaucous Gull flying into the bay and the drake Long-tailed Duck reappeared.

Offshore
8 Shelducks east, 1 male Long-tailed Duck, 44 Common Scoters west, 7 Red-breasted Mergansers, 4 Red-throated Divers west, 1 Great Crested Grebe west, 1 Glaucous Gull east , 3 Kittiwakes west, 21 Little Gulls west, 1 Razorbill west and 3 Auk sp. west.

Visible Migration
2 Skylarks north-east, 1 Grey Wagtail north-east, 4 Alba Wagtails north-east, 2 Meadow Pipits north, 1 Chaffinch east and 14 Siskins east.
 Meadow Pipit

Skylark

Grounded Migrants 
3 Stonechats.
 Stonechat

Others
1 Buzzard, 65 Golden Plovers, 130 Grey Plovers, 2,500 Knots, 1 Purple Sandpiper, 9 Snipe, 19 Black-tailed Godwits, 17 Bar-tailed Godwits, 1 Med. Gull, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 1 Stonechat and 5 Rock Pipits.
 Med. Gull

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