A busy morning at the Gap, with 280 Siskins, 120 Goldfinches, 100 Linnets, 110 Tree Sparrows, eight Swallows and three House Martins among vismig there, with a Brown Argus in a garden there in the aftertnoon. A group of 13 Red-breasted Mergansers headed south at the Brigg, where a juvenile Common Tern and a Sandwich […]
Two Slavonian Grebes spent the day in the north of the bay with a Red-breasted Merganser, a Tufted Duck, 15 Red-throated Divers and 70 Teal. Barnacle Geese were on the move, with 75 along the coast (and 68, likely mostly or all the same birds, past the Brigg). A Pomarine Skua, six Sooty and 16 […]
On the sea, a Black Guillemot and 10 Pintail went north, with a Little Egret, 10 Bonxies, four Arctic Skuas past the Gap. Yesterday (1st), seven Sooty and nine Manx Shearwaters, three Velvet Scoters, 10 Great and five Arctic Skuas passed the Brigg, with eight Bonxies and a Sooty also past the Gap. The Dams […]
A relatively quiet but slightly more promising end to the month, with two Jays being the standout highlight at the Gap, and 95 Tree Sparrows and 1cy Yellow-legged Gull also passing by there. A Velvet Scoter and a Mediterranean Gull moved south offshore this afternoon. Yesterday (29th), 90 Pink-feet passed the Gap and 56 the […]
Single Balearic and Sooty Shearwaters passed the Gap this morning (with 53 Red-throated Divers in the bay there), with a total of 10 Bonxies and 28 Barnacle Geese passing the Brigg and a Kingfisher on it.
A busy morning’s vismig at the Gap produced 600 Siskins, 350 House Martins, 250 Linnets, 100 Swallows and 170 Pink-footed Geese; otherwise still quiet in the area.
A quiet day, with the pick of the Gap’s vismig being 140 Siskin, three Corn Buntings, 12 Snipe and four Coal Tits. Two Bonxies and 11 Sandwich Terns passed the Brigg in the afternoon, with a Wheatear and Greenshank among bird in situ there.
A much quieter day at the Obs, with a brisk SW and high pressure dominating. Highlights of a p.m. seawatch included a Marsh Harrier high in-off from the east and eventually north-west, and a first year Mediterranean Gull feeding with Common Gulls off the Brigg before heading south. A late Yellow Wagtail was the pick […]
Finally a busier day on the sea, with the wind steadily swinging north during the day and plenty of activity, especially in the afternoon and evening. Our first all-four-skua day of the autumn included day counts of one juvenile Long-tailed, six Pomarine, 21 Great and 30 Arctic, while tern diversity was even more impressive – […]
A little more activity on the sea this morning was headlined by a Balearic Shearwater lingering offshore for a while before meandering south, with back-up from 37 Manxies north (and three south), four Bonxies north (and two south), 11 Red-throated Divers south, a Puffin, 66 Teal (north), three Arctic Skuas south and three present, and […]