Thursday 24 July 2014

Whats that going over the hut....is it a Turnstone

A Roseate Tern and Velvet Scoter passed Whitburn Obs early morning. The wader passage continued but this time i had Magic Mark to help me and we were joined by Pink Floyd. I had to leave for work so this is what we saw till then in order of appearance

Thursday 23rd July 05.20-07.30 N2 cloud cover

Sandwich Tern 14n 325s
Velvet Scoter 1n 1s
Common Tern 6n 38s
Black h Gull 2n 3s
Common Gull 2n 3s
Whimbrel 2s
Common Scoter 47n
Puffin 13n
Manxie 16n 6s
Redshank 13s
05.50 White beaked Dolphin 2 seen briefly
Dunlin 8s
Gropper 1 reeling
Turnstone 7s
Bar t Godwit 2n
Bonxie 1n
06.20 White beaked Dolphin 5n
Curlew 3n
Mallard 1n
Arctic Tern 3n
Roseate Tern 1s