Sunday 30 April 2017

Nothing compares to spring Pomarine Skuas!

Yesterdays sea watch was brilliant but todays was probably the best I have had in this country, great birds and excellent company.
Pomarine Skuas

Arctic Skua
Great Skua
05.00-18.30 with AJG,LG,SO,MB,AL,ML,PT,GH,DW et al:

Mute Swan: 3 in
Brent Goose: 64 up
Shelduck: 13 up
Gadwall: 10 up
Pintail: 1 up
Shoveler:6 up
Teal: 2 up
Eider: 1 female up
Common Scoter: 1,284 up      24 down
Velvet Scoter: 20 up
Red-breasted Merganser: 3 up
Red-throated Diver: 24 up
Black-throated diver: 5 up
Great-crested Grebe: 16 around
Fulmar:14 up   1 down
Gannet: 689 up
Hobby: 1 up
Peregrine: 1 in
Oystercatcher: 19 up
Avocet: 5 up
Ringed Plover: 2 up
Grey Plover: 151 up
Knot: 76 up
Sanderling: 121 up
Dunlin: 6 up
Bar-tailed Godwit: 160 up
Whimbrel: 48 up
Great Skua: 19 up
Pomarine Skua: 129 up
Arctic Skua: 44 up
Mediterranean Gull: 4 down
Little Gull: 31 up
Kittiwake: 105 up
Little Tern: 54 up
Sandwich Tern: 233 up
Arctic Tern: 87 up
Commic Tern; 1,110 up
Black Tern: 34 up
Guillemot: 2 up
Razorbill: 1 up
Auk sp 8 up   3 down
Sand Martin: 3 in
Swift: 2 up
Swallow: 9 in
Harbour Porpoise: 5+
Grey Seal: 1
Fox
              Pomarine Skua Flock Sizes and Times
1 @ 05.42,     8 @ 05.44,       1 @ 05.50,       5 @ 06.05,
7 @ 06.17,     2 @ 06.44,       2 @ 06.58,       6 @ 07.00,
7 @ 07.05,     6 @ 07.12,       2 @ 07.15,       3 @ 07.25,
4 @ 07.32,     2 @ 07.38,       1 @ 07.50,       1 @ 08.00,
3 @ 08.40,     1 @ 09.03,       1 @ 09.10,       2 @ 09.30,
4 @ 09.40,     1 @ 09.55,       4 @ 09.58,       1 @ 10.16
1 @ 10.25,     3 @ 10.32,       8 @ 11.10,       1 @ 11.15,
2 @ 11.20,     2 @ 11.30,       2 @ 12.20,       7 @ 12.26,
1 @ 12.43,     2 @ 13.18,       7 @ 13.55,       2 @ 14.03,
5 @ 14.13,     1 @ 15.10,       2 @ 15.15,       1 @  15.40,
1 @ 15.49      5 @ 17.52,       1 @ 18.09.
 Pomarine Skuas
 Fulmar over the beach
 Avocets
Female Eider

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