Tuesday 24 September 2019

24th September!

Record image of 1 of at least 5 Balearic Shearwaters past today
A day of mainly sea watching, often in very damp conditions:
06.45-09.00, 11.00-13.00, 15.00-17.30 with CP, OL, JTM, PT and DW:
Brent Goose: 4W
Shoveler: 1W
Common Scoter: 16W
Balearic Shearwater: 5W
Gannet: 845W
Ringed Plover: 2W
Great Skua: 4W    1E
Pomarine Skua: 1W adult
Arctic Skua: 32W  6+around
Yellow-legged Gull: 1 around
Sandwich Tern: 1,214W
Common Tern: 57W
Guillemot: 5W
Razorbill: 5W
Auk sp: 6W
Swallow: 186 out
Harbour Porpoise: 4+
Grey Seal: 1
A short visit to the ARC late morning saw 2 Cattle Egrets, a Great White Egret, a Greenshank, a Ruff, 15 Dunlin, a Garganey but little else of note.
This map depicts the known travels of a Mediterranean Gull red colour ringed as a Pullus (H5U2) on 18/06/2015. I saw this bird at Copt Point on 14/09/2019.

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