On a cold windy day there were few birds in the area apart from 3 Stonechats and singles of Chiffchaff, Firecrest and Goldcrest. On the sea a pair of Goosanders, rare for us, flew down channel.
Phil, Richard, Jack.
Sunday 31 December 2023
Friday 29 December 2023
29th December 2023
Phil and I walked around the area today and had 5 Stonechats and a Chiffchaff on the clifftop. In Oldstairs Road we also had 3 Firecrests,
Thursday 28 December 2023
23rd December 2023
On arrival at the Bay this morning we were greeted with small groups of Razorbills pouring down channel, after a couple of hours we had counted at least 5500. Other than these we only had 42 Red-throated and 3 Black-throated Divers.
We were joined by Gerald (Gull King) who proceeded to find this first winter Caspian Gull.
Simon, Gerald, Jack.
16th December 2023
We did a seawatch in the Bay and had very little of note apart from at least 1000 Cormorants moving down channel in about 10 minutes at 09:30.
Simon, Jack.
Sunday 10 December 2023
10th December 2023
In a quite strong SW wind, with most birds moving down channel, we had 22 Red-throated Divers, at least 450 Gannets, 37 Kittiwakes, 82 Auks of which 18 were Razorbills and also 40 Fulmars which were presumably the local breeders off the cliffs.
Unfortunately there was a recently dead Harbour Porpoise washed up on beach.
Simon, Jack.
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