Calm, very warm and sunny until 0920 when fog rolled in and stopped play. It cleared an hour or so later but by then it was too late.
I thought it might be a reasonable migration day in the calmer weather - and it was but there was not much in the way of variety. Cormorants storskarv now very obviously on the move with the biggest flock being 76 birds which included a fair number of young birds.
In a little under two hours the following passed:
Gannet havsule 173 S, 2N
Cormorant storskarv 130 S, 2N
Shag toppskarv, 26N, 27S
Eider ærfugl 6S (all males)
Great Black-backed Gull svartbak 75S
Common Gull fiskemåke 38S
Curlew storspove S 4
Meadow Pipit heipiplerke 90S
Small numbers of the usual waders, a few Lesser Black-becked Gulls sildemåke, a Sparrowhawk spurvehauk migrating a long way out to sea and a White-tailed Eagle havørn were among the other sightings
Common Gulls fiskemåke on their way south
Eiders ærfugl
Gannets havsule
Lesser Black-backed Gull sildemåke
Part of one of the Shag toppskarv flocks seen today
I thought it might be a reasonable migration day in the calmer weather - and it was but there was not much in the way of variety. Cormorants storskarv now very obviously on the move with the biggest flock being 76 birds which included a fair number of young birds.
In a little under two hours the following passed:
Gannet havsule 173 S, 2N
Cormorant storskarv 130 S, 2N
Shag toppskarv, 26N, 27S
Eider ærfugl 6S (all males)
Great Black-backed Gull svartbak 75S
Common Gull fiskemåke 38S
Curlew storspove S 4
Meadow Pipit heipiplerke 90S
Small numbers of the usual waders, a few Lesser Black-becked Gulls sildemåke, a Sparrowhawk spurvehauk migrating a long way out to sea and a White-tailed Eagle havørn were among the other sightings
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