Saturday 9 January 2016

Bonxie!

Great Skua on the beach this afternoon
08.00-11.00 at the fishing boats with RO,LO,SO and MC
Brent Goose: 89E
Common Scoter: 6W
Velvet Scoter: 1 around
Eider: 1W
Red-breasted Merganser: 3W
Red-throated Diver: 29W
Graet Northern Diver: 1W
Gannet: 106W
Curlew: 2W
Great Skua: 3W
Arctic Skua: 1 o/s
Little Gull: 23W
Kittiwake: 92W
Guillemot: 157W
Razorbill: 72W
Auk sp: 78W
Grey Seal: 1
Distant Velvet Scoter
A text from RS this afternoon alerted me to a Great Skua that he, Chiddy and MS had found and was posing near the fishing boats.
Unfortunately it was partially oiled but feeding well on the fish offal, it was easily seeing off any Great Black Backed and Herring Gulls that were brave enough to come near it. It was still present on the beach late afternoon when we left.





2 comments:

  1. Enjoyed the Bonxie shots Martin. Made a change from Caspian Gulls! :-)

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  2. It took all my willpower to ignore the Caspian today Steve, I'm sure I'll crack tomorrow!

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