Nocmig recording during the past couple of nights has been generally quiet, just Ringed Plovers, 1 Grey Heron and 1 Barn Owl on the 19th. A weekend of seawatching started on Saturday in calm conditions which soon turned quite thundery and rainy. Birds of note from first light until 10:30am included 3 Shelduck, 4 Common Scoter, 3 Oystercatcher, 1 Ringed Plover, 1 Lapwing, 1 Curlew, 2 Snipe, 1 Common Sandpiper, 1 Turnstone, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 Mediterranean Gull, c150 Herring Gull, 3 Great Black backed Gull, 22 Little Tern were feeding offshore before moving off west, 37 Common Tern, 60 Sandwich Tern, 1 Great crested Grebe, 1 Red throated Diver, 6 Gannet, 1 Shag, 1 Kingfisher, 1 Hobby in off, 2 Peregrine, 111 Swallow west, 1 Grey Wagtail and 3 Meadow Pipit.
This morning there was a brisk NW wind so I spent a few more hours seawatching until 10:45am. Birds seen mostly flying west included 1 Shoveler, 2 Wigeon, 2 Common Scoter, 3 Oystercatcher, 1 Curlew, 1 Dunlin, an excellent passage west of 59 Arctic Skua, 1 large Auk sp, 10 Little Gull (142), 53 Black headed Gull, 2 Little Tern, c200 Common Tern, 1 Arctic Tern (143), c300 'Commic' Tern offshore, 17 Sandwich Tern, 1 Red throated Diver, 5 Manx Shearwater (144), 18 Gannet, 27 Cormorant and 1 Kestrel.
Barn Owl
Manx Shearwater (lower bird) and Arctic Skua
4 Arctic Skua
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