Friday 4 August 2017

Mwnt seawatch

Arfon and I went to Mwnt for a seawatch this morning enjoyed a very nice mixed bag of passing birds. The highlight of the morning was the huge numbers of Oystercatchers coming through in flocks of 40-50 right below our feet.

(5:30 - 12:00):
2 - Balearic Shearwater
2-  Storm Petrel
5 - 1st sum. Little Gull
8 - Arctic Skua
18 - Med Gull
8 - Common Tern
8 - Sandwich Tern
1 - Little Egret
472 - Oystercatcher
369 - Common Scoter
1 - Bar-tailed Godwit
1 - Whimbrel
15 - Redshank
1 - Shoveler
27 - Small wader sp.

53 - Fulmar

Edward O'Connor