A very blustery day, heavy rain overnight and into early
morning, showers later. A strong westerly wind gusting to force 8 later in the day, the sea state was 6, temp 14º colder in the
wind. It’s a
wonder anything got through that.
An on and off seawatch today produced: 2 Arctic Skua, 2 Great Skua, 1 Pomarine Skua,
1 Great Northern Diver, 1 Roseate Tern, 4 Arctic Tern, 2 Sandwich Tern,
4 Common Scoter, 100+ Gannet, 1 Balearic Shearwater and 200+ Manx
Shearwater.
c100 Swallow in
off the sea along with 2 House Martin
and 7 Swift.
On the land we noted , 1 Wheatear, 15 Spotted
Flycatcher, 2 Willow Warbler, 1 Garden Warbler, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Sedge Warbler, 1 Blackcap,
1 Lesser Whitethroat, 5 Common Whitethroat and 2 Redstart.
2 Butterflies seen, both Green-veined Whites struggling in the strong wind and one given no choice but to take
shelter in some long grasses.
Spotted Flycatcher in the garden
Spotted Flycatcher, top fields
Green-veined White (courtesy Loren)
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