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Dick Lorand and I spent 7 hours watching on 27th and 5 hours on 28th at Sandilands. We had 1 harbour porpoise on 27th and 4 sightings of 2-3,2,2 and 1 on 28th.
However, the highlight for us was the wader migration on the 28th, with the largest number of whimbrel we had ever seen. This corresponds with Steve Lorand's Donna Nook observations on 28th and those at Spurn, where they also had their highest whimbrel count ever at 668 with 11 curlew, 208 turnstone, 33 Black-tailed godwits and many dunlin and knot, along with 953 swifts.
We were not watching all day, as Spurn observers were, but unlike skuas and shearwaters off Spurn, which we don't pick up in numbers, at least the waders come in close to the Lincs coast as they are south coasting.
We also had a female scaup, which stayed in the same vicinity both days. Normally, guillemots with juveniles are seen at this time close to our shore, but none on 27th or 28th. However, we did have a puffin and there were 2 arctic skuas on 27th.
Counts 27th 28th
Gannet 0 2
Cormorant 2 0
Heron 0 1
Teal 0 7
Scaup 1 1
Common Scoter 45 3
Oystercatcher 115 85
Grey Plover 0 1
Knot 219 361
Sanderling 82 87
Dunlin 32 187
Redshank 54 52
Black-tailed Godwit 0 5
Curlew 1 1
Whimbrel 1 329
Arctic Skua 2 0
Little Tern 5 1
Sandwich Tern 15 11
Common Tern 0 1
Arctic Tern 0 1
Commic Tern 3 0
Puffin 0 1
Regards,
Cliff
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