Sooty Shearwater

A superb Sooty Shearwater flying past the sea watch hide this morning

All day coverage today, many thanks to AJG, RW, CP, JA, DW et al for help with the totals:

06.00-16.30: 

Teal: 3W

Common Scoter: 54W  4E

Fulmar: 1E     4W

Manx Shearwater: 1W

Balearic Shearwater: 3W

Sooty Shearwater: 1W at 08.50 then spent the day till 17.00 at least at The Patch

Gannet: 437W      18E

Cormorant: 17W      9E

Oystercatcher: 2W

Kittiwake: 81W

Mediterranean Gull: 6W

Black-headed Gull: 245W

Yellow-legged Gull: 1 around

Sandwich Tern: 238W

Common Tern: 509W

Arctic Skua: 3E

Swift: 49 out

Sand Martin: 27 out

Grey Seal: 2

Harbour Porpoise: 4+

Sooty Shearwater feeding at The Patch

Plunge Diving

It was brilliant to see it feeding rather than the usual distant view dashing down the channel

A surfing Sooty

Gannets passing the sea watch hide