Sea watch from 09.20 - 13.35 from the sea bank hide:
GN Diver 1, close in on the sea RT Diver 4 N GC Grebe 24 RN Grebe 1 Slav Grebe 1 Barnacle Goose 4 N Common Scoter 114 N Velvet Scoter 8, inc. at least 3 AdM flew in from the south and landed on the sea, still present when I left Common Eider 8 RB Merg 11 LT Duck 5 Pintail 30 Guillemot 1 Gannet 350+ - difficult to estimate as they tend to "circulate" in a giant loop, sweeping in from Holbeach / Cut End, N past Freiston and then often turning eastward back into the Wash. Bonxie 12 Arctic Skua 1 Pom Skua 1 juv Little Gull 4 juv Kittiwake 2 ad Leach's Petrel 2 - one appeared from the south at 11.55 and drifted slowly northwards, last seen at 12.15. a 2nd bird, presumed to be a different one appeared at 12.40 and flew directly out to sea pursued by a Herring Gull
Phil
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