June...out with a bang

2 Pom Skuas and a Red-necked Grebe went north at Whitburn Obs this morning on a fantastic sea watch. If this is June comeback soon, both Marks were in and Pink Floyd and we loved it. Great light no fog, quality birds and Dolphins...twice. And a great Northern Diver landed on the sea in front of us mega.
This is what we saw in order of appearance

Saturday 30th June 04.30-10.30 NE2 8/8

Manx Shearwater 98n 17s
Gannet 685n 376s
Puffin 519n 94s
Common Tern 152n 23s
Common Scoter 575n 15s
Sandwich Tern 16n 61s
Fulmar 51n 1s
Pom Skua 2n ads
Arctic Tern 7n 13s inc 1st sum bird nth
Red th Diver 5n
Dunlin 1n
Arctic Skua 5n 1s
Eider 3n
Mallard 2n
Black h Gull 41n 11s inc first 4 juvs of yr
Curlew 19n 11s
Teal 154n a new day passage record for June
Velvet Scoter 1s
Red br Merganser 2n 1s
Shelduck 2s
Shoveler 1n
Black tailed Godwit 3s
Bar tailed Godwit 1n sum plum
Common Gull10n 3s
Red necked Grebe 1n
Swift 8n
Bonxie 2n
Turnstone 1n
Tufted Duck 1n
LBBGull 1s
Great Norther Diver 1n and landed on sea in front of Obs

Porpoise 1n 3s
Bottlenose Dolphin 20 plus north 5.00-5.06 and same pod south 6.06-6.09

Moving Swiftly on.......

 229 Manxies a Pom Skua and a pod of Bottlenose Dolphins all went north at Whitburn Obs on this mornings watch. The wild winds were gone as were the Swifts after yesterdays 164 south.  I had been hoping for some movement as birds went home after being blasted and i was not disappointed. The Manx Shearwaters took me by surprise i didn't expect as many and a single flock of 63 was memorable. As usual the Dolphins stole the show and it was a second sighting this week of Sammy the Squirrel, check him out at the end of the Dolphin video
This is what i saw in order of appearance

Friday 15th June 04.30-09.00 WSW2 6/8

Gannet 244n 10s
Fulmar 33n 2s
Common Gull 1n 10s
Manx Shearwater 229n 6s
Sandwich Tern 12n 66s
Common Tern 21n 12s
Common Scoter 21n 9s
Red th Diver 6n 2s
Pom Skua 1n ad 05.10
Shelduck 3n
Arctic Tern 2n 1s
Puffin 112n 9s
Swift 4s
Bottlenose Dolphin 30ish n 06.18-06.35 mid distance
Squirrel 1on Obs wall
Goosander 4n
Shag 1n
Black h Gull 1s
Swallow 1s
Yellow Wagtail 1s
Eider 6s
Curlew 1n

I can see clearly now...

 2 Roseate Terns a Great Northern Diver and 2 Arctic Skuas went north at Whitburn Obs in 5 hours this morning. When i got out of my car i was relieved to see no sign of fog or mist, yesterday my watch was cancelled due to the thick fog. Stoney was in the house and we enjoyed a fantastic five hour watch. It started slowly but the birds just kept coming, the first Roseate Tern was a year tick for both of us and anyone who saw Robs tweet with the boc photo will know what sort of views we enjoyed of the Great Northern Diver. The Grey Plovers and Godwits were the icing on the cake...can't wait for tomorrow
This is what we saw in order of appearance

Tuesday 5th June 04.40-10.00 N2-3 8/8

Fulmar 166n
Puffin 198n 14s
Manxie 23n
Sandwich Tern 137n 131s
Gannet 326n 139s
Common Tern 66n 2s
Grey Heron 1s
Red th Diver 3n 1s
Black h Gull 2n 1s
Common Gull 2n 3s
Common Scoter 30n 14s
Shag 2n 1s
Roseate Tern 1n 1s
Arctic Tern 16n
LBBGull 1n
Knot 1n
Arctic Skua 2n
Sanderling 5n
Sand Martin 1s
Great Northern Diver 1n
Dunlin 1n
Bar-tailed Godwit 2n
Grey Plover 5n
Turnstone 7n
Ringed Plover 1n
Eider 3s