Wednesday, 29 August 2018

Sunday 26th August 2018

Negative news today on the Great White Egret at Seamer Tip Pool.

The rest of the news today came from Long Nab where 6 hours 40 minutes of seawatching produced the following data - 3 Wigeon (S), 128 Teal (N), 32 Common Scoter (N), a Red-breasted Merganser (S), 4 Red-throated Divers (3 S, 1 N), 8 Sooty Shearwaters (N), 284 Manx Shearwaters (23 S, 261 N), a Balearic Shearwater (N), a Red-necked Grebe (N), six species of waders (S), 74 Sandwich Terns (39 S, 35 N), 205 Common Terns (89 S, 116 N), 3 Arctic Terns (1 S, 2 N), 7 Great Skuas (N), a Pomarine Skua (S), 14 Arctic Skuas (7 S, 7 N), a Puffin (S), a Sand Martin (S), 6 Swallows (S) and 2 Meadow Pipits (S), also today 2 Minke Whales went north.