Friday 28 July 2017

Pectoral Sandpiper!

07.45-10.00 from the sea watch hide with AJG
Common Scoter: 4 up
Great-crested Grebe: 1 around
Fulmar: 1 down
Gannet: 597 down
Cormorant: 16 around
Arctic Skua: 2 up
Kittiwake: 5 down
Sandwich Tern:37 down
Common Tern: 28 down
Auk sp: 2 down
Sand Martin: 13 out
Swift: 28 out
Swallow: 1 out
Harbour Porpoise: 8+
Grey Seal: 1
Distant Pectoral Sandpiper
Whilst I was on the reserve Pam and Pete found a Pectoral Sandpiper which always kept its distance like the Temminck's Stint they found, hopefully their next find will be in front of Firth on the close pools. Also on Burrowes, a Wood Sandpiper, a Little Stint, 4+ Common Sandpiper, a Black-tailed Godwit and a Bar-tailed Godwit which flew through of note.
The ARC was very quiet  though a Great White Egret was notable there.
15.00-16.00 from the fishing boats with AJG & MH
Great-crested Grebe: 1 around
Manx Shearwater: 1 up
Balearic Shearwater: 2 down
Gannet: 41 down   13 up
Cormorant 11 around
Sanderling: 1 on beach
Arctic Skua: 1 around
Kittiwake: 1 down
Sandwich tern: 31 down
Common Tern: 19 down
Swift: 1 out
Wood Sandpiper with 1 of the many 100s of Sand Martins around
 Black-tailed Godwit from Firth
 Yesterdays juvenile Yellow-legged Gull
 Yesterdays juvenile Yellow-legged Gull
 Yesterdays juvenile Yellow-legged Gull
 Yesterdays juvenile Yellow-legged Gull

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