29 Russian White-fronted Geese flew south at 09.35 on this mornings watch. It was just reward for Magic and Saint Mark and myself following over 6 hours of watching from the cold Obs this weekend. Amazingly it was our only sea watching year tick tho discussion on the actual number was arduous it varied between 30, 29, 27....Our target birds for the weekend were white winged gulls, Glaucous and Iceland to be precise and today seemed the better day with a continuous stream of gulls heading south. It was not to be but the Whitefronts made up for all of that, although they are a very rare Obs bird this is the forth consecutive year we have connected. Ive included some video from @harperBirder and myself as i was late getting on the birds
This is what we saw today in order of appearance
Sunday 14th January 07.50-11.10 S3 8/8
Scan Herring Gull 1n 7s
Common Gull 83s
Black h Gull 59s
Guillemot 180s
Eider 6s
Cormorant 4s
Heron 1n
Shag 2s
Red th Diver 5n 12s
Common Scoter 1s
Shelduck 1s
Gannet 1n 1s
Fulmar 6n 9s
Curlew 1n 13s
Red br Merganser 1s
Wigeon 3s
Russian White-fronted Goose 29s 09.35
Golden Plover 70s
Brent Goose 1n db
Razorbill 1s
