Sooty Shearwater and a Bonxie passed Whitburn Obs this morning but the star of the show was a Basking Shark. It went slowly north circa 800 yds offshore. Its triangular doral fin was not particularly impressive compared to the Dolphins we see locally and its tail fin wasnt always prominant. Its my first ever and i hope more people see it as it goes north as the sea is calm and flat.
Magic and Saint Mark joined me, sadly they left before the shark.
We had a decent variety of birds including a new Obs list year tick , Kingfisher, bringing my year list to circa 157
This is what we saw in order of appearance
Saturday 10th October 06.55-10.30 NW1-2 bright sun and light cloud
Grey Heron 1s
Eider 6n 5s
Red th Diver 4n 4s
Black h Gull 63n 69s
Common Gull 12n 2s
Curlew 3n
Common Scoter 24n 3s
Shag 2s
Porpoise 1
Med Gull 1n ad
Bonxie 1n
Kingfisher 1n
Red br Merganser 1s
Wigeon 5n
Redshank 1n
Sooty Shearwater 1n
Pink footed Goose 180s
Teal 2s
Basking Shark slowly north 09.20 until lost to view at 09.40 circa 800yds offshore
