Saturday 24 October 2015

bring on hurricane Patricia.........

Pom Skua and Velvet Scoter passed Whitburn Obs by 11am. Magic Mark joined me but was unable to conjure up a decent sea watch. Bring on that hurricane it might shake things up a bit
This is what we saw in order of appearance

Saturday 24th October 07.30-11.00 SSW3 cloud cover

Eider 4n
Common Gull 13n 37s
Black h Gull 5n 28s
Curlew 3n 2s
Common Scoter 8n 5s
Shag 1n
Red th Diver 1n 2s
Arctic Tern 1s juv
Grey Heron 1s
Kingfisher 1 below obs
Golden Plover 90s
Bonxie 1n
Pom Skua 1n ad
Velvet Scoter 1n
Brent Goose 2n db