Little bit of what you fancy......

17 Little Gulls and a Roseate Tern passed Whitburn Obs in 5 hours this morning. Yes we got a little bit of what we fancied and more. Magic and Saint Mark joined me and later Prof, Pink Floyd and Mothman Brian. We enjoyed a great sea watch that deserved better light than we got for the majority of it as the early cloud cleared. Long-tailed Skua and Black throated Diver are still scarce birds to catch up with in the County so throw in a few Geese, Ducks and Waders..cracking. Today's video is of a Little Egret on Thursday the 12th of the year at the Obs, sadly Saint Mark still needs it so i thought this reminder of what they look like might help.
This is what we saw in order of appearance

Saturday 23rd September 06.15-11.10 S2-3 1/8

Black h Gull 198n 61s
Gannet 484n 56s
Common Scoter 155n 20s
Common Gull 64n 8s
Arctic Skua 4n 3s
Shag 5n 7s
Curlew 7n
Red th Diver 19n 34s
Teal 382n 25s
Manxie 3n
Puffin 3n
Guillemot 1675n
Razorbill 20n
Eider 6n 2s
Velvet Scoter 1n
Wigeon 52n 7s
Arctic Tern 2n 2s
Meadow Pipit 6s
Black th Diver 1n
Sandwich Tern 12n 15s
Redshank 1s
Shelduck 5n
Pink footed Goose 9n
Pied Wagtail 1s
Goose sp 2n
Little Gull 17n mainly adults
Golden Plover 5n
Pintail 1n 2s
Mallard 1n 1s
Brent Goose 2n db
Ruff 6s
Grey Wagtail 1s
Shoveler 1n
Rosy Tern 1n juv
Bonxie 2n
Long tailed Skua 1n juv
Grey Heron 2n