Wednesday 29 August 2018

Mellow Yellow.......

Balearic Shearwater, Yellow-legged Gull, Little Gull...just another day at the office. Stevie Thunder was a late arrival and Stoney was in the house and we had a cracking sea watch. Full cloud calm sea loads of birds, we loved it. It seems to be the year of the juvenile Yellow-legged Gull...two a penny, and Rob called one today. The video later is one from the 10th. Ducks and Terns were moving along with Manxies and Skuas and one of the stars of the show was a delicious juvenile Little Gull. Smaller than the Terns it was flying near cor..Mute Swan is an Obs mega and we had three
This is what we saw in order of appearance

Wednesday 29th August 05.35-09.40 SW2 8/8

Teal 256n 44s
Black h Gull 22n 63s
Curlew 16n
Gannet 1263n 314s
Common  Tern 75n 92s
Cormorant 18n 158s
Fulmar 14n 4s
Sandwich Tern 49n 29s
Common Scoter 151n 64s
Shoveler 4n
Common Gull 1n 7s
Shag 2s
Bonxie 5n 1s
Manxie 93n 18s
Arctic Skua 18n 8s
Mallard 1s
Shelduck 14n 1s
Puffin 1n
Arctic Tern 2n
Red th Diver 3s
Mute Swan 3s juvs
Oystercatcher 10s
Redshank 2n
Wigeon 9n
Golden Plover 6s
Eider 1s
LBBGull 1s
Goosander 1n
Yellow-legged Gull 1 juv
Balearic Shearwater 1 feeding offshore
Grey Wagtail 1s
Little Gull 1n juv
Porpoise 1s
Swift 1n

Ive lost the ability to enhance videos on YouTube now and can't stabalise the hand shake out, i will find another way but didn't have time today