Sunday, 20 October 2013

sea watching is like a box of chocolates you never know.........

2 Great northern Divers,8 Little gulls and a Sooty Shearwater passed Whitburn by 09.30 this morning
magic mark new mark (slept in again) and myself witnessed some quality sea passage but not much in between
This is what we saw in order of appearance

Sunday 20th October 07.15-09.30
Black h Gull 19n 116s
Shag 3s
Cormorant 5n 14s
Eider 36n 2s
Great northern Diver 2n
Common Scoter 28n 28s
Teal 9n 3s
Goldeneye 2n
Bonxie 4n
Red th Diver 4n 13s
Grey Heron 1n 1s
Wigeon 17n 4s
Common Tern 1n
Little Gull 8s
Long t Duck 2s
Sooty Shearwater 1n
Med Gull 1n ad

i looked for the yellow browed at Morrison's briefly but only saw 3 very large brown rats