A
light SE wind and rain first thing dropped a few new birds in today before the
wind increased and veered SW. The highlights were a single
Wood Sandpiper, a Wood Warbler and the first Spotted Flycatcher of the spring. Other new finds included single Yellow-legged and Glaucous
Gulls, plus 4 Black Terns offshore.
Glaucous Gull
Offshore
36 Common Scoters west, 1 Red-throated Diver east, 4 Manx Shearwaters west, 52
Gannets west, 175 Knots west, 5 Bar-tailed Godwits
west, 1 Great Skua west, 26 Kittiwakes west, 4 Black Terns west, 13 Arctic Terns
west, 8 Sandwich Terns, 1 Guillemot west and 3
Auk sp. west.
Visible
Migration
1 Common Sandpiper east, 46 Swallows north and 1 Redpoll east.
Grounded
Migrants
1 Whimbrel, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Wood Sandpiper, 26 Swifts, 50 House
Martins, 1 Wood Warbler, 3 Willow Warblers, 1
Garden Warbler, 1 Spotted Flycatcher, 6 Wheatears, 1 Yellow Wagtail, 1 Tree Pipit
and 2 Lesser Redpolls.
Others
16 Ringed Plovers, 500 Sanderlings, 400 Dunlins, 68 Turnstones, 1 Yellow-legged
Gull, 1 2CY Glaucous Gull and 1 Cuckoo.
Turnstones
Dunlins and Sanderlings
Glaucous Gull
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