19th September

A drizzly, mizzly start but it began to brighten up from mid-morning with the drizzly spells shortening and becoming less frequent through the afternoon; seawatching was hampered by the poor visibility so the large Shearwater sp. which went past early morning couldn’t be clinched although it was probably a Cory’s.   The day’s highlight was a lovely adult Long-tailed Skua which performed wonderfully in front of the seawatch hide before settling on the rocks for a few hours while offshore were 3 Red-throated Divers, 2 Great-northern Divers, 31 Sooty Shearwaters, 16 Manx Shearwaters and 5 Arctic Skuas.   Elsewhere it was pretty quiet with 2 Herons, an increase to 137 Wigeon, a Peregrine and 21 Bar-tailed Godwits.

Long-tailed Skua                                    Simon Davies