Monday, 18 January 2016

Solo seawatch

Selsey Bill from noon until 1330:

Pintail 4 1200 w
Black-throated Diver 1241 e
Great Northern Diver on sea 
Dunlin 2 1245 e
Razorbill 1250 w
Great Skua 1305 e
Common Scoter 1308 w
Auk sp 1311 w
Velvet Scoter 2 1321 w
Mediterranean Gull 1328 e

Not bad I thought!

Medmerry East Side:

A Red-breasted Merganser in one of the channels was a first for me here.

Kipson Bank Farm: Forty Golden Plovers and single Lapwing with the masses of Gulls.


Mediterranean Gull, Selsey Bill:




Red-breasted Merganser, the breach:




At Drayton in the cold, a Pochard:




Shovellers & Mallard: