Saturday 21 June 2014

wot no Bridled Tern

7 Arctic Skuas a Bonxie and an adult Med Gull passed Whitburn Obs by 08.45 this morning. new Mark joined me this morning on a pleasant sea watch sadly the Bridled Tern and the Black Scoter failed to show, the sum plum Med Gull was a stunner
This is what we did see in order of appearance

Saturday 21st June 04.55-08.45 NW2 full cloud cover good conditions

Common Scoter 152n 1s
Gannet 880n 10s
Curlew 13n
Puffin 48n 44s
Sandwich Tern 11n 18s
Common Gull 6n 2s
Manxie 18n
Black headed Gull 9n
Swift 20n
Shelduck 4n
Canada Goose 11n
Arctic Skua 6n 1s
Red th Diver 1s
Common Tern 11n 4s
Med Gull 1n adult
Arctic Tern 1n 1st sum
Bonxie 1n
07.30 Dolphin sp breached but distant and not seen again