Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Skogsøy 19 May 2020 - Another day, another seawatch

Northerly winds and sunny so predictably seawatching again.

The best birds today were a nice adult Long-tailed Skua fjelljo and a couple of flocks of Knot polarsnipe.

Barnacle Geese hvitkinngås



One of the Great Skuas storjo that passed

Raven ravn

Still reasonable numbers of Red-throated Diver smålom heading north

Red-throated Diver smålom followed by two Guillemots lomvi

Today's totals were:
Red throated Diver N 149
Northern Gannet N 32
Great Cormorant N 3
Great Cormorant S 1
Eurasian Shag N 5
Eurasian Shag S 24
Barnacle Goose N 64
Long tailed duck N 12
Common Scoter N 20
Merganser N 10
Oystercatcher N 10
Red Knot 23
Whimbrel N 1
Arctic Skua N 1
Long-tailed Skua N 1
Great Skua N 2
Common Gull N 47
Lesser black backed Gull N 1
Black-legged Kittiwake N 12
Arctic Tern N 23
Common Guillemot N 14
Razorbill N 16
Atlantic Puffin N 10
Auk N 23

On my way home I had to come to an abrupt stop to check out a raptor - a nice Peregrine vandrefalk causing havoc:)

Peregrine vandrefalk


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