25/02/2025

Cormorants resting on the beach by the sea watch hide

07.50-09.20 with RW, JY & OL Wind SSE 3, Temp 3°  Partly Cloudy

Brent Goose: 48E

Shelduck:1E

Shoveler: 15E        2W

Pintail: 2W

Velvet Scoter: 2E 

Common Scoter: 1E

Great-crested Grebe:  5 on 

Oystercatcher: 1E

Kittiwake: 18W       4E  

Black-headed Gull:  Present n/c

Mediterranean Gull: 33E      4W 

Common Gull: Present n/c

Great Black-backed Gull: Present n/c

Herring Gull: present n/c

Lesser Black-backed Gull: 1E

Guillemot: 230E    17W  c40 feeding along the colour change

Razorbill: 48E     1 feeding along the colour change

Auk sp: 272E    129W

Red-throated Diver: 27E     4W

Fulmar: 2E    1W    

Gannet:16E       37W

Cormorant: Present n/c

Harbour Porpoise: 3

2 Velvet Scoters passing the hide this morning at c1km or more range. The shipping lane starts at 6 mls

A Gannet from this afternoons watch

As the wind increased to a force 6 SE, I just had to give the sea another watch, unfortunately the birds did not materialise.

12.50-14.20 from the sea watch hide

Great-crested Grebe: 1E    

Kittiwake: 9E   

Mediterranean Gull: 2E 

Guillemot: 6E

Auk sp: 14E       16W

Red-throated Diver: 11E     10W    

Gannet: 29E     3W

Cormorant: 152E        227W

Absolutely no change on the peninsular, the now seemingly resident Great Northern and Black-throated Divers were still present, along with the elusive Glossy Ibis, also the Egrets and wildfowl, nothing in the bushes.