Sunday, 5 October 2014

Sea Watching!

0645 to 0745 + 09.50-10.35  + 14.20-16.50  many thanks to AJG for collating the numbers.
Red-Throated Diver: 1 around
Great Crested Grebe: 2 on sea
Gannet: c50 around
Brent Goose:  301 down    11 up
Wigeon: 25 down
Teal:  63 down
Marsh Harrier: 1 out
Avocet: 7 down at 0708   6 up at 09.55
Dunlin: 5 on beach
Ringed Plover: 1 on beach
Turnstone: 10 on beach
Common Scoter: 56 up
Arctic Skua: c6 around
Sandwich Tern: c50 around
Common Tern: c30 around
Little Gull 1 around
Kittiwake: 3 down
Mediterranean Gull: 4 2x 1w + 2 ads
Caspian Gull: 2w on beach
Auk sp: 5 down
Grey Seal: 1 
Harbour Porpoise: 2
 2w Caspian Gull
 2w Caspian Gull

This Herring Gull won't win any beauty contests, but you have to feel sorry for it with a fishing hook embedded in the top of its leg with the line wrapped round its leg.

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