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.