Monday 20 July 2015

Waders, what waders......

5 Little Gulls and 25 Arctic Terns passed Whitburn Obs on my early morning watch by 7am today.
Yesterday it was all about waders with 830 smaller waders passing at a rate of circa 166 per hour. Today i saw 1 Knot in two hours!

Monday 20th July 05.00-07.00 WSW1-2 cloud cover calm sea

Manx Shearwater 7n 5s
Sandwich Tern 40n 206s
Whimbrel 2s
Black h Gull 1n 2s
Common Gull 2n 13s
Shelduck 7s
Puffin 4n 3s
Common Scoter 4n
Curlew 1n 1s
Little Gull 4n 1s ads
Arctic Tern 7n 18s
Red th Diver 1s
Knot 1s
Swift 2s