Monday, June 01, 2020

Skogsøy 28 May 2020 - Quiet day

Slightly overcast with light breeze from the north-east.

The quietest day of the loonatic season thus far with very little passing - barely 200 birds in a few hours.

Gannets havsule

Guillemot lomvi (left) with Razorbill alke.
I often get the impression that Guillemots look "hunch backed" - something that comes across in this iamge

The clean underwings of the Razorbill and the dirty / streaked underwings are shown here

Razorbill regularly raise their heads - a bit like Red-throated Diver smålom do

Red-throated Diver smålom

The numbers, such as they were:

Red throated Diver N 3
Northern Gannet N 42
Great Cormorant S 3
Eurasian Shag N 8
Eurasian Shag S 45
Common Scoter N 1
Common Scoter S 12
Oystercatcher N 30
Common Gull N 25
Lesser black backed Gull N 7
Black-legged Kittiwake S 1
Arctic Tern S 3
Common Guillemot N 1
Razorbill N 10
Atlantic Puffin N 4
Auk N 2

Filleting some fish in my garden brought in a colour ringed gull and a lot of mayhem.

Herring Gulls gråmåke fighting for scraps


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