In
Cornelian Bay early afternoon there were 2 Red-throated Divers, 2 Eider, a
Purple Sandpiper, 4 Dunlin, a Knot, 3 Ringed Plovers and 8 Common Terns. On the
opposite of town there were 3 Ringed Plovers in Jackson’s Bay and at Scalby
Mills an immature ♂ Eider, a Wigeon, an adult Mediterranean Gull, 7 Redshanks,
9 Turnstones and 140 House Martins feeding over the beck.
Today
at Long Nab 23 Red-throated Divers (11 S, 12 N), 2 Manx Shearwaters (N), a
Buzzard (S), a Whimbrel (S), 23 Sandwich Terns (18 S, 5 N), 15 Common Terns
(S), a Great Skua (N), 435 Meadow Pipits (S) the first real movement of the
autumn and 158 Linnets (S). Also in this area today was the first site record
of Nuthatch which dropped in from high to a hedge by the ringing plantation.
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