27th April 2018

It’s the end of April, winds were a light SE, there was excellent visibility for a morning in St. Margaret’s Bay, surely all the pieces were fitting together for our first Pomarine Skua passage of the year. Clearly not whilst I was watching! I spent three and a half hours from mid morning and had a steady movement of the following all up channel: Six Red-throated Divers, seven Razorbills, four Guillemots, two Shelducks, a Common Tern, 112 Sandwich Terns, 234 Common Scoters, 68 Gannets, two Whimbrel, a Black Tern, two Great Skuas and a Brent Goose. Two ‘Greenland’ Wheatears were also present, one of them joining me on the seawatch platform for a while.

‘Greenland’ Wheatear (Richard Heading)