Saturday 11 June 2016

East wind blows no good....

2 Bonxies and an Arctic Skua went north at Whitburn Obs this morning. The cream of the county's sea watchers were massed in the Obs today but to no avail. As the old sailors saying goes 'east wind blows no good'. Well it didn't today we worked hard but the pickings were slim
This is what we saw in order of appearance

Saturday 11th June 04.25-10.00 ESE1-2 full cloud cover

Sandwich Tern 67n 48s
Gannet 180n 63s
Common Tern 11n 11s
Arctic Tern 3n 1s
Puffin 123n 7s
Manxie 17n 1s
Swift 16n 10s
Little Tern 3n 1s
Common Scoter 207n 25s
Arctic Skua 1n
Common Gull 8n 4s
Bonxie 2n
LBBGull 1n 1s
Porpoise 2n 2s
Red th Diver 1n
Teal 51n 7s
Shag 5n 1s