Monday 7 May 2018

A few more terns

North Harbour Wall 0615-0915 with additional sightings from Heysham Head in the same time frame
Arctic Tern 37 (2/7/8/4/14/2) - before 0800hrs
Sandwich Tern 57
Common Scoter 50+ (largest group 20)
Red-throated Diver 4 (2 in, 2 winter plumaged on)
Mute Swan 4 across Bay
Guillemot 1 - the winter plumaged bird at the harbour mouth
Shag - the 2CY summering on the wooden jetty
Gannet - 1
Turnstone - 20 on rocks below harbour wall
Wheatear - 1
Swallow  - 14
Redpoll - 1
Pink-footed Goose - 15+ distantly on sea

Ocean edge
Two sanderling, 74 Dunlin, 26 ringed plover

Two grey seal close to each other offshore near the sewage pipe plus some of the same presumably as regards Sandwich and Arctic terns