Wednesday 12/02/2020

Another bright and breezy morning at The Point with many birds off shore, mainly Cormorants, Common and Black-headed Gulls but little movement.
08.20-09.20 from the hide:
Red-throated Diver: 1E     2W
Great-crested Grebe: 12E     108 o/s
Gannet: 11E     36W
Cormorant: present n/c
Kittiwake: 7W
Black-headed Gull: Present n/c
Mediterranean Gull: 4W
Common Gull: Present n/c
Herring Gull: Present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: Present n/c
Guillemot: 12E
Auk sp: 6E
Harbour Porpoise: 1
A wander around the trapping area saw many Great and Blue Tits, 2 Long-tailed Tits, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Green Woodpecker and the usual Robins, Wrens, Dunnocks and Corvids.

 2nd calendar year Iceland Gull making one of its 3 flybys at the fishing boats this afternoon.

I went to the fishing boats in the hopes that the Iceland Gull would appear, I was not to be disappointed.
13.00-15.30 from the boats with RW, joined by DW, BC, AJG, CT, LW, PT et al:
Great-crested Grebe: 1 o/s
Gannet: 6E     39W
Cormorant: present n/c
Kittiwake: 36W
Black-headed Gull: Present n/c
Mediterranean Gull: 1W    2 o/s
Common Gull: Present n/c
Herring Gull: Present n/c
Iceland Gull: 1 2nd cal year o/s
Great Black-backed Gull: Present n/c
Guillemot: 7E    40W
Razorbill: 6W
Auk sp: 6E     45W
Harbour Porpoise: 1

 2nd calendar year Iceland Gull

2nd winter Mediterranean Gull