A stop off at the New Diggings on the way to the beach saw a Great White Egret, c400 Great Black Backed Gulls bathing and small numbers of the common wildfowl, but still none of the scarcer Grebes or a Diver.08.20-10.00 from the sea watch hide:

Common Scoter: 3 down
Red-throated Diver: 88 down.    9 up
Great-crested Grebe: 87 around
Gannet: 168 around
Cormorant: 361 around
Great Skua: 3 up
Kittiwake: 28 down. 16 on sea
Guillemot: 76 on.   27 up.  8 down
Auk sp: 38 up.   9 down
Grey Wagtail 2 around
Meadow Pipit: 5 around 
Harbour Porpoise: 2

Goldeneye from Makepiece Hide this afternoon

A short late morning visit to Burrowes found 3 Caspian Gulls(2 ads + 3w) and an adult Yellow-legged Gull, also a red head Goosander flew through. Again I was unable to locate the Long-eared Owl at The Dipping Pool.

 1 of 4 adult Caspian Gulls seen this afternoon from Makepiece Hide 

I spent a couple of hours this afternoon in Makepiece Hide in the company of David Walker, where we sheltered from the increasing winds, while scanning through the 3,000+ Gulls that came into the islands to roost. We found a minimum of 10 Caspian Gulls(4 x ad, 4 x 3w, 2w and a 1w), also 5 Yellow-legged Gulls also 2 Goosander flew in including a nice pink drake, 2 Goldeneye, a Common Snipe, several 100s of Lapwing and Cormorants plus the commoner wildfowl.

 1w & 2w Caspian Gulls from Makepiece this afternoon