27/09/2021

 At last an excellent day spent staring at the sea and seeing loads of birds 😀

3 of this afternoons Balearic Shearwaters heading west along the colour change, they gave good scope views but dos in the camera.

07.00-11.30 OL,AJG, SM, from the sea watch hide

Brent Goose: 63W

Teal: 7W  1E

Common Scoter: 22W.   6E

Red-throated Diver: 3W    1 on

Great-crested Grebe: 4 on

Leach’S Petrel: 1W (seen only by SM at the fishing boats)

Fulmar: 1E

Sooty Shearwater: 3W

Manx Shearwater: 2W

Balearic shearwater: 2W

Gannet:  c300 around

Cormorant: 14 around

Kittiwake: c150 around

Mediterranean Gull: 2W

Sandwich Tern: c200 around

Common Tern: 1W

Great Skua: 1W    9E

Arctic Skua: 37W   23E

Guillemot: 2W

Auk sp: 2W   1E

Swallow: 40 out

Grey Seal: 1

Common Seal: 1

Harbour Porpoise: 1

13.30-17.00 from the fishing boats with AJG, CT

Brent Goose: 9W

Common Scoter: 7E

Sooty Shearwater: 4W

Manx Shearwater: 2W

Balearic shearwater: 38W

Gannet:  165W

Cormorant: 17 around

Ringed Plover: 7W

Turnstone: 7W

Kittiwake: 142W

Mediterranean Gull: 6W

Sandwich Tern: 187W

Common Tern: 39W

Great Skua: 1W

Arctic Skua: 16W   3E

Guillemot: 2W

Razorbill: 1W

Auk sp: 4W

Swallow: 76 out

Grey Seal: 1

Harbour Porpoise: 3

I have heard no news from the reserve.