The Lincolnshire Bird Club

Highlights from a day's seawatch at Sutton-on-Sea:

10 Red-throated Diver
2 Sooty Shearwater
104 Gannet
4 Velvet Scoter
520 Common Scoter
13 Long-tailed Duck (inc 8 sat on the sea together)
17 Scaup
1 Red-breasted Merganser
1CY Glaucous Gull
266 Kittiwake (minimum)
12 Great Skua
2 Pomarine Skua
1 Arctic Skua
3 Little Auk
15-20 auk sp
Peregrine over the sea

A brief look at Mablethorpe first thing produced 2 Woodcock in off and a Stonechat present

Regards

Chris (with GPC, Neil Drinkall & Josh Forrester)

Again interesting to note the difference in birds seen along the coast. I watched from Mill Hill at Gib from 0700 to 1045 and 1400 to 1600
0700 to 1045
Shelduck 3
Teal 13S
Tufted Duck 5N
Common Scoter 160 (30 on sea and 130S)
Red-breasted Merganser 3S
Unidentified diver 4
Cormorant 239
Great Crested Grebe 1 on sea
Turnstone 6S
Snipe2
Great Skua 2S
Waxwing 1S (KMW)
Grey Wagtail 1N
Brent Goose 14S
Wigeon 46 (32S 14N)
Eider 1 on sea
Goldeneye 3S
Red-throated Diver 7 (2N 4S and 1 on sea)
Pomarine Skua 7S (all pale adults)
Unidentified auk 17 (16S 1N)
Peregrine 2 (a juv mobbing Barn Owl over Measure’s and a juv male in/off landed on beach briefly)

1400 to 1600

Shelduck 1N
Teal 19S
Common Scoter 20 on sea
Gannet 49 (38S 11N)
Turnstone 4S
Great Skua 4 (3S 1N)
Kittiwake 89S
Merlin 2 along beach
Brent Goose 9S
Wigeon 34S
Eider 2 (1S 1 on sea)
Red-throated Diver 2 (1N 1 on sea)
Cormorant 22
Pomarine Skua 2S
Unidentified auk 4

Regards

Nige

Nige,
That's an interesting and comprehensive list of birds seen at Gib Pt.
However, I do have one request : is it possible for you (and others) to add a space between numbers and directions S and N (particularly S) ?

A less than leisurely scan could otherwise read, if only initially :

Red-breasted Merganser 35
Red-breasted Merganser 3 S

Waxwing 15
Waxwing 1 S

Brent Geese 145
Brent Geese 14 S

The 5 and S are more difficult to differentiate accurately in you post than in my examples.

For those of us over 60 without 20/20 vision, ( although I HAVE been to SpecSavers/ 5pec5avers), the gap would be of help.

Thanks.

Regards

Freddy