Saturday 25 November 2017

Diver dawn.....

 45 Divers passed Whitburn Obs on today's sea watch. It's winter and not much passes this time of year so it was nice to get Divers moving from the off. Pink Floyd joined me and both Marks are still on holiday. I did not manage video of today's birds, too busy nailing the i.d's  so i have included another video from my Ecuador 2017 playlist on YouTube. How many Grey Phals can a man see in a year, it's crazy that another went by today.
This is what we saw in order of appearance

Saturday 25th November 07.30-10.00 W1-2  2/8

Black h Gull 57n 29s
Red th Diver 28n 14s
Common Gull 10n 10s
Common Scoter 3n 3s
Cormorant 1n 10s
Guillemot 13n 1s
Great Northern Diver 2n 1s
Goldeneye 2n
Teal 8n
Eider 2s
Kestrel 4n
Gannet 4n
Fulmar 1n
Grey Phalarope 1n 09.15
Porpoise 2n