Sunday, 8 January 2012

More good birds!

Todays two hour sea watching fix from the platform yielded 125 kittiwakes including 3x1st winters, 5 more goosander west, a handful of red throated divers and a couple of common scoter. Frustratingly, I also had a very distant skua...not a bonxie....most probably a Pom but my conscience says I need a better view to get it on the year list. I'll see if I think the same later after half a bottle of wine! 35 snow buntings flew west over my head and thanks to Rob Gordon a spoonbill was seen distantly over Thornham Marsh.

On the way back down the path the Coue's arctic redpoll was showing down to ten feet on the ground. The photographers were filling their boots (and their memory cards)

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