Monday 24 October 2022

24/10/2022

Hen Harrier heading out to sea at the fishing boats this morning
08.00-11.00 & 13.30-15.30  from the fishing boats with JS, JY, DW & DS:
Common Scoter: 17W     8E
Red-breasted Merganser: 1W
Red-throated Diver: 3W     1 present
Great-crested Grebe: 8W     6 present
Balearic Shearwater: 1W
Sooty Shearwater: 1W
Gannet: 873W
Cormorant: present n/c
Hen Harrier: 1 Ring tail out to sea
Oystercatcher: 4E
Ringed Plover: 1W
Little Stint: 1W
Kittiwake: 1 Feeding in bay
Little Gull: 204W
Black-headed Gull: present n/c
Mediterranean Gull: 1 feeding in bay
Common Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull: present n/c
Herring Gull sub sp Argentatus: 1 present
Lesser Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c
Sandwich Tern: 75W
Common Tern: 1W
Arctic Tern: 1W
Arctic Skua: 1 feeding in bay
Guillemot: 7W
Razorbill: 517W
Auk sp: 165W
Short-eared Owl: 3 in 
Swallow: 11W
Grey Seal: 1
1 of 3 Short-eared Owls seen from the boats today
Arctic Tern

Arctic Skua harrying a Sandwich Tern
Argentatus Herring Gull, a big bruiser of a bird

Long-tailed Duck at the ARC today, also a Little Stint there

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