Sooty's and Skuas!

A drizzly windy morning starting at the Sea watch hide.

07.10-08.40 with AJG who kindly collated the numbers:

Wigeon: 2 down

Common Scoter: 3 down

Gannet: 1,274 down and 306 around

Great Skua: 5 down

Arctic Skua: 2 down

Mediterranean Gull: 1 down

G B B Gull 120/hour passing down

Kittiwake: 1 down

Sandwich Tern 12 dow

Razorbill 6 down

Auk sp 3 down

The ARC was again very quiet with the islands looking very bare, I couldn't even find the Red-necked Grebe though it was still present per EH.

A very windswept Scotney found just the usual feral geese and 32 Curlews.

 At the fishing boats this afternoon the Arctic Skuas were showing very well

14.10-17.00 from the fishing boats with PH,EH, MH,LG et al:
Brent Goose: 5 down
Great-crested Grebe: 4 around
Sooty Shearwater: 4 down
Shearwater sp 4 down (probably Manx)
Gannet: 1,634 down
Turnstone: 6 around
Arctic Skua: 5 around
Yellow-legged Gull: 1 ad around
Kittiwake: 12 down
Sandwich Tern: 61 down + 30 feeding off shore
Common Tern: 1 around
Razorbill: 17 down
Auk sp: 4 down      2 up

 Common Tern at the fishing boats this afternoon

 Sandwich Tern at the fishing boats this afternoon

  Yellow-legged Gull at the fishing boats this afternoon

 Turnip

Webb's Wainscot