Friday 13 October 2017

Dartford Warblers!

A gloomy hour 07.30-08.30 this morning at the sea watch hide with AJG & S.O:
Brent Goose: 14 down
Common Scoter:  3 up
Red-breasted Merganser: 2 down
Sooty Shearwater: 2 down
Gannet: 700+ down
Great Skua: 1 down
Mediterranean Gull: 2 around
Sandwich Tern: 14 around
Razorbill: 15 down
Guillemot: 3 down
Auk sp: 4 down   3 up
I spent the rest of the morning walking around the point and desert with Sean O seeing a few each of Goldcrests and Chiffchaffs, 3 Wheatears, c250 Goldfinches over along with flyover Siskins and Redpolls, around midday by the station gorse we found 2 Dartford Warblers in the company of 4 Stonechats. As the the weather was so gloomy I had left my camera in my car, by the time I had fetched it both the Dartford Warblers had melted away into the Broome.
This afternoon 14.00-16.00 from the fishing boats:
 Great-crested Grebe: 3 around
Gannet: 464 down
Turnstone: 6 around
Great Skua: 4 down
Arctic Skua: 3 around
Mediterranean Gull: 5 around
Kittiwake: 14 down
Sandwich tern: c10 around
Common Tern: 1 around
Harbour Porpoise: 5
Grey Seal: 1
Late afternoon at Galloways 4 Stonechats were the only notable birds.

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