Monday 1 May 2017

May day...May day....

Drake Garganey and a Manxie went north at Whitburn Obs this morning. No sign again of the hoped for Black Tern but i was not that disappointed Drake Garganey made up for the lack of Terns. May day it is and i said it twice as this is the second time in two years I've seen Drake Garganey from the Obs on May day. Well done Magic Mark for alerting us to get on the bird. Garganey is an Obs Mega and Stevie Thunder was glad he had joined us this morning. Shame the light was poor but we still managed a good variety of birds. We chatted about my DBC field trip to Bishop Middleham yesterday and i was saying it was a success tho a few more folk would have been nice. It was Steve's next destination and he fancied finding a Wood Sandpiper and i explained where i thought the best place to find one was....and i was right!. Well done Steve
This is what we saw in order of appearance

Monday 1st May 05.15-10.00 E2 2/8

Gannet 130n 54s
Common Gull 5n 77s
Eider 3n 5s
Sandwich Tern 4n 130s
Fulmar 30n
Common Scoter 4n 6s
Red th Diver 8n 2s
Puffin 1n 2s
Common Tern 5n 4s
Arctic Tern 6n 8s
Manxie 1n
Tufted Duck 2n 2s
Shag 2n
Shelduck 6n
Swallow 4n
Goosander 1s
Oyster Catcher 35n
Whimbrel 7s
Sand Martin 1n
Grey Plover 1s
Teal 2s
Kestrel 1n
Garganey 1n Drake 08.15