Sooty Shearwater,3 Little Gulls and a juv Med Gull passed Whitburn Obs on today's early sea watch.The Indian summer is gone and a blasting south westerly is busy shaking up the birds in the north sea.Magic Mark beat me in today.It was very cold and i must remember my gloves and scarf next time. The Bonaparte's was seen in fields near the Obs yesterday so we were checking all the gulls but no sign early morning. My first Pink Feet of the year south and a good selection of birds made for an interesting watch
Here is what we saw in order of appearance
Sunday 15th September 06.10-09.10 SSW6 cloud rough sea
Eider 5s
Black h Gull 17n 7s
Cormorant 1n 30s
Red th Diver 4n 2s
Shag 2s
Common Tern 1n 1s
Arctic Skua 7n 2s
Teal 1n
Common Scoter 5s
Sandwich Tern 2n 6s
Grey Heron 1n 1s
Pink footed Goose 7s
Sooty Shearwater 1n
Manx Shearwater 1n
Curlew 1n
Little Gull 3s 2 juv 1 ad
Med Gull 1s juv
Red br merganser 1s
Shoveler 6s
Bonxie 1n
