Friday, 8 September 2023

Back to Castle Point.

Helen and I met up again yesterday and this morning.  Today's highlight was a dark morph  Arctic Skua which paused briefly to harass a Sandwich Tern before continuing south.The same waders still present, plus several fly-pasts from a couple of Common Sandpipers.  A few Gannets, five Manx Shearwaters, a male Common Scoter and three Wigeon flew north and five Sandwich Terns south.  Six imm. Shags on the sea and a Med Gull on College Rocks.

Yesterday a Redshank joined the  usual waders at the point, 17 Turnstones flew south and a Wheatear perched on the prom railings, just a couple of yards from me.