Saturday 21st December

Seawatching up to 11am provided interest between the showers with a Great Skua, a female Eider, a Velvet and 87 Common Scoter, 12 Red-throated and six Great Northern Diver, 141 Gannet, 57 Kittiwake and six Fulmar either on the sea or heading south. Elsewhere the Black Brant was in the estuary, also present 287 Wigeon, 148 Redshank, 120+ Great Black-backed Gull, four Greenshank, four Pale-bellied Brent, three Goldeneye, a Mediterranean Gull and the Slavonian Grebe.

 

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