The winds are turning westerly now so today will be my last seawatch of the Pom season as I am also going away next week. It was somewhat better than I expected it would be from a few weeks back and it was good to do some all day sessions. As tedious as they can be, I still enjoy them.
Totals for 04.45-09.00 & 12.00-19.00 are:
Pomarine Skua - 9
Arctic Skua - 3
Black Tern - 1
Little Tern - 7
Commic Tern - 810 (more mixed groups today)
Arctic Tern - 10
Sandwich Tern - 54
Little Gull - 1
Mediterranean Gull - 2
Bar-tailed Godwit - 238
Greenshank - 1
Redshank - 1
Whimbrel - 2
Sanderling - 2
Knot - 7
Common Scoter - 194
Shoveler - 8
poor pic of my favourite seabird