Iceland Gull, Great n Diver and 46 Red th Divers passed Whitburn by 10.30 this morning. Anticipation was high for a special white winged gull today. I was joined by magic mark and stoney was in the house.We did get a class white winger but it was in the form of a juvenile Iceland Gull, we had a pleasant enough watch in nice conditions but the other highlight was a good passage of Shags.
The first Great northern Diver of the month brought to an end a fantastic month of diver passage in November. 36 Great northers were logged in the obs in November bringing the years total to 74
7 Black throated passed bring the year total so far to 23 for this much scarcer bird. And just to round things off 379 Red throats passed in November bringing the years total to 2320
This makes it the second best ever year so far for Great northern Divers since 102 in 2007 of which 61 were in November
It would be nice to finish the year with another species of diver.............
This is what we saw in order of appearance
Sunday 1st December 07.25-10.30 W2 cloud cover
Black h Gull 17n 15s
Common Gull 3n 2s
Eider 4n 6s
Common Scoter 44n 14s
Shag 1n 68s
Goldeneye 1n
Cormorant 9n 4s
Red th Diver 20n 26s
Gannet 6n 1s
Fulmar 3n
Iceland Gull 1s juv
Guillemot 5n
Snow Bunting 1s
Great n Diver 1n
Goosander 1n
