When I woke up early this morning I could hear the north wind howling outside so I turned over and went back to sleep for a couple more hours, which turned out to be a mistake as AJG later informed me I missed a Pomarine Skua, 5 Arctic Skua's and a Great Skua, as well as a few Manx Shearwaters.
08.00-09.00
Common Scoter:2E
Red-throated Diver: 1E
Diver sp: 1W
Great-crested Grebe: 12 around
Fulmar: 1E
Gannet: 13E 5W
Bar-tailed Godwit: 5E
Great Skua: 1W
Arctic Skua: 1E
Mediterranean Gull: 4E all adults
Kittiwake: 2E
Little Tern: 2E
Sandwich Tern: 12E 53W
Common Tern: c100 around
Auk: 2E
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 4+
Late morning at the reserve on Burrowes 13 Curlew, 4 Turnstone, an Avocet, a Sanderling, a Whimbrel, 2 Bar-tailed Godwits and 2 Little Gulls, several Swifts were feeding high over the lake, also the Common terns mating and looking for nest sites.
Chiffchaff in the lighthouse Garden this afternoon was the only migrant on The point I could find.
14.30-17.00 in the company of SG
Common Scoter: 19E 6W
Red-throated Diver: 2W
Fulmar: 2E
Gannet: 38E 6W
Cormorant: 26 around
Oystercatcher: 4E
Bar-tailed Godwit: 4E
Whimbrel: 16E
Arctic Skua: 1W
Kittiwake: 29E
Sandwich Tern: 69E 23W
Common Tern: 16E
Auk sp: 7E
Swallow: 4 in
Grey Seal: 1
Harbour Porpoise: 3+
At least 2 Bitterns were reported as showing well from the screen hide today.
Common Terns
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