21/11/2022

Little Auks passing the fishing boats this morning

1 of 2 Great White Egrets that went south out to sea. 

With a strong southerly wind veering South Easterly with rain forecast for today, the weather conditions looked just about perfect for a memorable sea watch and so it proved to be.

07.15-12.30 from the fishing boats with JS, OL, DW, PT. Many thanks to Jacob for collating the numbers.

Brent Goose: 1E

Shelduck: 2W

Teal: 33W

Tufted Duck: 4W

Eider: 3W    2 present

Velvet Scoter: 1W   3E

Common Scoter: 15W

Red-breasted Merganser: 6W

Red-throated Diver: 33W

Black-throated Diver: 1

Great Northern Diver: 2W

Fulmar: 7W

Little Egret: 1 present in the puddles

Great White Egret: 2 out to sea

Gannet: 508W

Cormorant: many present

Oystercatcher: 6E

Golden Plover: 2W

Grey Plover: 4W

Turnstone: 9 present

Knot: 10W

Sanderling: 1W

Dunlin: 32W

Kittiwake: 1,077W

Sabines Gull: 1 juvenile present

Little Gull: 175W

Black-headed Gull: present n/c

Mediterranean Gull: 2W

Common Gull: present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: present n/c

Sandwich Tern: 1W

Great Skua: 4W

Pomarine Skua: 2W

Arctic Skua: 2W

Little Auk: 4W  1E

Guillemot: 217W

Razorbill: 1,323W

Auk sp: 217W

Puffin: 5W

Merlin: 1 present

Starling: 470 in off the sea

1 of the Eiders feeding at the fishing boats

Presumably the same Sabine's Gull was seen several times this morning 

1 of the juvenile Pomarine Skuas

Great Northern Diver

Black-throated Diver with a Red-throated Diver

Black-throated Diver

175 Little Gulls past this morning

1,077 Kittiwakes past this morning

508 Gannets past this morning

I doubt it was a very pleasant experience on this sailing ship the way it was being tossed around by the sea as it came past The Point