Thursday 17/10/2019

07.00-09.00 numbers kindly provided by AJG
Brent Goose: 1E
Common Scoter: 2W  12E
Red-throated Diver: 1W
Great-crested Grebe: 18 o/s
Gannet: 149W
Peregrine with prey on beach & being mobbed by Sparrowhawk
Great Skua: 2W
Arctic Skua: 8W
Kittiwake: 4W
Little Gull: 3W
Mediterranean Gull: 4W
Sandwich tern: 234W
Razorbill: 10W
Auk sp: 36W
Swallow: 26 out
Linnet: 12 in
Meadow Pipit: 47 in
Goldfinch: 35 in

 1 of 2 Short-eared Owls in The Desert today

Wandering around The Point and Desert found several Chiffchaffs and Goldcrests, 3 Ring Ouzels, c15 Song Thrushes, 2 Short-eared Owls, a Wheatear, c40 Swallows, many Goldfinches and Linnets with fewer Chaffinches, Skylarks and Meadow Pipits, also a Brown Hare and a Bank Vole.

 Wheatear

 1 of 3 Ring Ouzels

Brown Hare

Another good afternoon sea watch in good company:
14.00-17.00  with CP, AJG and PT.
Brent Goose: 11W
Common Scoter: 25W
Red-breasted Merganser: 4W
Red-throated Diver: 1W   1 on
Great-crested Grebe: 9 on
Sooty Shearwater: 1W
Gannet: 385W
Cormorant: c100 around
Golden Plover: 4W
Turnstone: 3 on beach
Common Snipe: 2W
Great Skua: 2W
Arctic Skua: 16W  8 around roughly!
Kittiwake: 11W
Little Gull: 62W
Caspian Gull: 1 x1w on beach un-ringed
Sandwich tern: 380W 
Guillemot: 7W
Razorbill: 16W
Auk sp 58W
Swallow: 7 out
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 2

A shy un-ringed Caspian Gull at the fishing boats this afternoon