Another early morning seawatch - it's September and I really should be tree-watching, but it seems easier to sit on my bum looking at distant specks. Flat calm again today 06:15 - 07:10 with the light against me.. not good for birds, but didn't stop me looking at 2 Minke Whales offshore (where else? unlikely to be dead on the path like all my lovely small mammals) - mum and calf, I think. A single Harbour Porpoise wasn't in the same league.
Red-throated Divers continue to pour through (44 south, 1 north) but otherwise it was pretty quiet (2 Manx Shearwaters north, 2 south, 2 Great Skuas (1N 1S), 2 Arctic Skuas south, 27 Sandwich Terns (20S) and 8 Arctic Terns feeding offshore. 88 Northern Gannets split 50:50 44 N 44S, probably the same 44!
2 Eurasian Wigeon N might be a patch year tick, can't remember, but doubt it, 3 Common Scoter N definitely not. 67 Common Gulls south, still doing whatever the hell it is they're up to, and a single Common Redshank on the rocks. And that, give or take a few Black-legged Kittiwakes and Northern Fulmars, was it. Nothing to get the lovely men and women at BirdGuides out of the tea room. Night all.
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44 RTD south and 1 north. Had it forgotten something? Left the oven on perhaps?
You know how it is. You get to work and realise you've left your house keys dangling from the front door.
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