Sooty!

A generally damp windy miserable day made a small movement of Arctic Skuas with the bonus of a relatively close Sooty Shearwater.

 Sooty Shearwater

07.00-10.00 from the fishing boats with MH:
Shoveler: 1 down
Common Scoter: 53 down
Great-crested Grebe: 2 around
Sooty Shearwater: 1 down
Gannet: 216 down
Merlin: 1 hunting off shore
Turnstone: 1 on beach
Great Skua: 4 down
Arctic Skua: 26 down + 6 around
Kittiwake: 2 down
Arctic Tern: 1 down
Commic Tern: 18 down
Sandwich Tern: 155 down
Guillemot: 5 down
Sand Martin: 3 out
Swallow: 105 out
Harbour Porpoise: 5+  also a dead one floated past close inshore.

 Sandwich Terns

 Arctic Skua

Deceased Harbour Porpoise

14.00-15.30 from the fishing boats with MH, AJG & RW:
Eider: 1 around
Great-crested Grebe: 20 on sea
Gannet: 116 down
Merlin: 1 hunting off shore
Turnstone: 1 on beach
Arctic Skua: 6 around
Sandwich Tern: 147 down
Arctic Tern: 1 down
Commic Tern: 3 down
Guillemot: 2 down
House Martin: 5 out
Swallow: 72 out
Harbour Porpoise: 5
Grey Seal: 1

At the ARC from Hanson a Hobby, the Red-necked Grebe still present, also the Black Terns, the Arctic Tern and the usual waders, wildfowl and Egrets.