An excellent Seawatch

A very poor record of the Manx Shearwater taken through the driving rain

First stop the ARC which was fairly quiet this morning with no Golden Plover and few Lapwings but 1 Wood Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpipers, 2 Green Sandpipers 2 Dunlin, 6 LRP, Ringed Plovers, 2 Little Gulls, 2 Marsh harriers and 2 Little Gulls. As I left the rain set in so i had a seawatch from 10.15-16.00 in the company of Mark Hollingworth who was on the beach when i arrived, having already seen 2 Manx Shearwaters and a Bonxie which bode well.

Todays Totals whilst i was present was:

Manx Shearwater 1w

Balearic Shearwater 1w

Fulmar 1w

Gannet 500+ conservative

Common Tern 500+ conservative

Sandwich Tern 150+ conservative

Arctic Skua 14w

Bonxie 1w

Black Tern 49w

Kittiwake 60+w

Barwit 5w

Knot 20w

Guillemot 3 on sea

Back at the south end of the ARC Pit late this afternoon, 5 Barwits,16 Dunlin,2 Common Sandpipers, 2 LRPs, the Goosander and 100+ Swifts.