Sunday 22 September 2013

Little and Large

10 Little Gulls,5 Arctic Skuas and 18 Red throated Divers passed Whitburn Obs by 10.15. It was nearly a case of little and large after the10 Little Gulls a large corvid was circling high up very distant, was it a Raven, we couldn't nail it. Not quite up to yesterdays standards but another nice watch with just Mark and myself and a brief visit from Pink Floyd before he left to look at a Lap bunt
Here's what we saw in order of appearance

Sunday 22nd September 06.15-10.15 SW1-2 cloud cover sometimes

Cormorant 3n 61s
Black h Gull 278n 16s
Wigeon 54n
Arctic Tern 1n
Shag 3n 6s
Red th Diver 8n 10s
Teal 251n
Eider 7n
Common Scoter 45n 1s
Heron 1n
Little Gull 10n
Goosander 4n
Scaup 1n female
Common Tern 3n 2s
Sandwich Tern 6n 15s
Arctic Skua 2n 3s
Bar tailed Godwit 1n