14 Bottllenose Dolphins,Red necked Grebe,and 18 Barnacle Geese were the highlights past Whitburn Obs this morning.Its always exciting to watch Dolphins and we have had plenty of White beaked this year so it was a nice surprise when i picked up this pod moving south to see they were Bottlenose.I have only ever seen small parties before of 2 or 3 so 14 maybe more was fantastic.They were close inshore along the flag line and were watched moving south for half an hour. I managed some video so will post it on my youtube channel after I've edited it
Away from the Dolphins things were a bit quieter for birds. Yesterday over 100 Skuas passed the Obs today none. This is what we did see in order of appearance....oh i was joined by Stoney,Hoggie, Millsie and a few others
Friday 27th September 06.35-10.35 SSE 2 cloud cover calm sea
Black headed Gull 30n 15s
Common Gull 5n 9s
Cormorant 2n 21s
Wigeon 41n
Med Gull 1s 1st w
Common Scoter 83n 31s
Eider 9n 5s
Red th Diver 6n 15s
Sandwich Tern 3n 11s
Teal 22n 50s
Sanderling 1n
Shelduck 2n
Curlew 2n
Manxie 1n
Brent Goose 1n db
Shag 4n
Velvet Scoter 2n
Barnacle Goose 18n
09.00 Bottlenose Dolphin 14s till 09.30
Red necked Grebe 1s
Mallard 1n
Turnstone 2n
