A 2-hour seawatch this morning was rewarded with a nice selection of wildfowl, headlined by a group of three
Eiders and no fewer than eight
Velvet Scoters heading east offshore, including a group of five and a singleton with a
Tufted Duck in its wake. 12
Red-breasted Mergansers, three
Teal, 10
Common Scoters, two
Great Crested Grebes and a
Kittiwake flew east, while four
Dark-bellied Brent Geese went the other way and 19
Red-throated Divers, 236
Gannets and 73
auks were also logged passing. Waders present included 30
Grey Plovers and 75
Dunlin, though only 11
Ringed Plovers and four
Turnstones. An adult
Lesser Black-backed Gull was in the roost field, while two
Mediterranean Gulls and four
Common Gulls were also seen. A female
Stonechat was by the blocked road, a
Chiffchaff was in the northwest corner and six
Skylarks, four
Goldcrests and two
Song Thrushes were among the other birds noted.
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