Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Skogsøy 11 April 2021 - Seawatching again

 Light easterly winds and sunny.

Today I was, as is so often the case, hoping for a good movement of birds after a period of poor migration weather. Although it was far from quiet it was not any kind of record setting day. It was something of a struggle to keep and eye on everything as there was quite a bit of very distant auk movement along with a decent passage of other stuff much closer in. The Common Gulls fiskemåke did a bit of both.....

It was the best day so far this year for Cormorants storskarv and I suspect some flocks may have passed behind the lookout point

A few small flocks of Curlew storspove headed north

Mergansers siland

Oystercatchers tjeld in the early morning light

Rock Pipits skjærpiplerke

Song Thrush måltrost
Totals in the period 0700-1000:

Red throated Diver N 11
Northern Gannet N 15
Northern Gannet S 13
Great Cormorant N 144
Great Cormorant S 2
Eurasian Shag N 9
Eurasian Shag S 5
Greylag Goose N 7
Greylag Goose S 6
Long tailed duck S 4
Merganser N 8
Oystercatcher N 193
Eurasian Curlew N 11
Black headed Gull N 2
Common Gull N 700
Razorbill N 3
Atlantic Puffin N 7
Auk N 25



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