An Excellent Sea Watch!

As southerly winds were forecast for the day I spent most the day in the sea watching hide with a virtually constant up channel movement of birds.
06.15-10.30 & 10.45-11.45 & 13.00-17.00 with AJG,MH,DW,CP,L & PH et al:
Brent Goose: 440E
Shelduck: 3E  1W
Shoveler: 3E
Pintail: 2E
Common Scoter: 649E    31W
Velvet Scoter: 8E
Eider: 23E
Red-breasted Merganser: 15E
Red-throated Diver: 209E
Black-throated Diver: 1E
Great-crested Grebe: 61 around the fishing boats per MH
Fulmar: 19E    2W
Manx Shearwater: 4E    20W
Gannet: 375E
Cormorant: n/c
Shag: 1W     1E
Merlin: 1W past the fishing boats per MH
Oystercatcher: 1E
Curlew: 16E
Great Skua: 15E
Arctic Skua: 13E
Little Gull: 3E
Mediterranean Gull: 1E
Kittiwake: 322E
Sandwich Tern: 876E
Common Tern: 1E
Guillemot: 5E
Auk sp: 2E
Guillemot: 12E  2W
Auk sp: 78E     14W
Harbou Porpoise: 6+

 Presumably yesterdays Shag going back east

A brief visit to Scotney logged my first Yellow Wagtail of the year, but little else there in the strong wind.

A safe resting place for this Herring Gull at Scotney