Weather was everything. Calm and clear until a little after 0700 when we sat through a rain / hail / sleet shower that lasted over half an hour and had us evaluating moving to the "seawatching" hide. After that back to calm and sunny conditions.
Plenty of action today with pretty much uninterrupted passage.
The highlights today (aside from the expected White-billed Divers gulnebblom) were a decent passage of Whimbrel småspove, above average numbers of Velvet Scoter sjøorre and a good movement of Barnacle Geese hvitkinngås - frustratingly we heard a number of flocks before we saw any of them and some flocks passed behind us so numbers were undoubtedly higher....
Totals between 05:15 and 12:00 were:
Red throated Diver N 213
White Billed Diver N 12
Northern Gannet N 15
Great Cormorant N 5
Eurasian Shag N 17
Eurasian Shag S 35
Barnacle Goose N 1356
Tufted Duck N 5
Long tailed duck N 68
Common Scoter N 224
Common Scoter S 3
Velvet Scoter N 25
Merganser N 15
Oystercatcher N 59
Whimbrel N 62
Arctic Skua N 1
Common Gull N 47
Black-legged Kittiwake N 10
Razorbill N 4
Atlantic Puffin N 4
Auk N 17
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