A few hours at the boats!

From the fishing boats:

07.45-10.00 when the rain closed visibility. 

Common Scoter: 9E   2W

Great-crested Grebe: 4 around

Fulmar: 16W

Manx Shearwater: 1W

Balearic Shearwater: 2W

Gannet: 89E   319W

Peregrine: 2 came in off together, probably returning from a hunting expedition. 

Dunlin: c100W

Sanderling: c50W

Arctic Skua: 1 Light Phase chasing Terns

Mediterranean Gull: 1 juv around

Yellow-legged Gull: 2+ juveniles around

Kittiwake: 12E

Black Tern: 3W

Sandwich Tern: 26W

Common Tern: 103W

Guillemot: 2W   1 on sea

Auk sp: 1E

Sand Martin: 97 out

Harbour Porpoise: 7+

Grey Seal: 1

 Dunlin

 juvenile Peregrine coming in off the sea

 Gannets

At the ARC from Hanson no real change, the Little Gull still, 5 LRPs, 6 Dunlin, 3 Redshank, Green and Common Sandpiper.

Another watch from the fishing boats this afternoon when the rain cleared briefly was not as productive as this morning, though DW had 15 Black Terns and an Arctic Tern feeding there this afternoon.
13.10-15.30 with MH,  joined by AJG and PT:

Fulmar: 1W
Manx Shearwater: 1W
Gannet: 201W      76E
Yellow-legged Gull:  presumed same 2 juveniles
Kittiwake: 4W
Little Tern: 1E
Sandwich Tern:  36W
Common Tern: 35W
Swift: 44 out

 Juvenile Yellow-legged Gull

Last nights catch in the moth trap was average, with Buff Arches probably the best.

Buff Arches

Spruce Carpet