Monday 6th August 2018

This mornings highlights off Long Nab included a Shelduck (S), 20 Teal (S), Common Scoter (2 S, 59 N), 2 Manx Shearwater (S), a Balearic Shearwater (seen in feeding flock at 08.30 but went S at 08.38), a Little Egret (S at 09.35), a juvenile Marsh Harrier (S at 09.28 and was seen later hunting around Cromer Point), 7 Knot (S), a Greenshank (S), 38 Sandwich Terns (11 S, 27 N), 3 Common Terns (S), a Great Skua (N), 112 Swifts, 78 Sand Martins, 136 Swallows, 36 House Martins and 6 YellowWagtails (all S), also 2 Minke Whales went south at 13.25.

This evening at Scalby Mills a juvenile Shelduck, 3 Mediterranean Gulls (3cy, 2cy and adult), an adult and a juvenile Common Tern, 3 Knot and 4 Sanderling.