Saturday 9 January 2016

So close...

A seawatch from Whitburn without the wind and rain made a change. The sea was flat, but the visibility wasn't great, with general murkiness. An unlucky Woodcock almost made it across the North Sea only to ditch into the sea, just 200m from shore. After lying in the water, it managed to take off and fly a few feet, only to drop back into the sea and eventually succumbed to the Great Black-backed Gulls.

0800-1030

Mediterranean Gull    1s
Red-throated Diver    20n   54s
Shag    1n   29s
Common Scoter    22n   8s
Peregrine    1s
Little Auk    4n
Great Northern Diver    1n   1s
Kittiwake    4n
Great Crested Grebe   1s
Brent Goose    1n   1s
Woodcock    1 almost in off
Porpoise    3n
Red-breasted Merganser    2n
Sanderling     18s
Little Gull    1s
Bar-tailed Godwit    1n

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