Three species of Diver and a Blue Fulmar passed Whitburn Obs in 4 hours this morning. I was joined by Pink Floyd and Stoney was in the house on another wet Obs watch. The south easterly was chucking rain at us most of the time making it hard to keep the optics dry. Birds were slow to get moving but when they did it wasn't bad. For the third day running i found a Great-crested Grebe on the sea, Rob managed to get on it but Dave did not and as on the previous days it was never seen again. The cracking Blue Fulmar won bird of the day followed by our 3rd Puffin of the year.Shags continued to feature with today's haul bringing the four day total to 116 mainly south, some will be locals but many are just heading south.
This is what we saw in order of appearance
Tuesday 6th February 06.35-10.35 SE3 8/8 rain heavy at times
Black h Gull 7n
Kittiwake 34n 22s
Fulmar 100n 110s
Guillemot 70n 449s
Shag 16n 3s
Razorbill 2n
Red th Diver 5n 8s
Cormorant 4n 1s
Eider 1n 1s
Gannet 14n 3s
Puffin 1s
Common Gull 2n 1s
Mallard 6n
Little Gull 2n 3s (1 1st w)
Great-crested Grebe 1 on sea
Black th Diver 1s
Great Northern Diver 1n
Common Scoter 4s
Curlew 2n
Blue Fulmar 1n (D)
