The day started with a
Siskin over the Edinburgh garden - another quick Musselburgh trip was then in order for the morning before other stuff later in the day. Highlights today included two
each of
Greenshank,
Common Sandpiper and
Black-tailed Godwit. Other bits included 480
Eiders, 117
Goosanders, 102
Mute Swans, the
Wigeon, four
Common and 12
Velvet Scoters, two
Red-throated Divers, a
Fulmar, 83
Bar-tailed Godwits, 97
Dunlin, representatives of all the common auks and a lone
Grey Partridge. Several juvenile
Herring Gulls and a juvenile
Lesser Black-backed Gull were at the River Esk mouth.
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chilling Goosanders |
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Curlew |
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Red-throated Diver |