Ho Ho Ho And So On..

[ENTER APPROPRIATE SEASONAL GREETING HERE]


Well, this has been an interesting week. Despite all the weather blowing around, I haven't done any proper seawatching [fancy that]. I have seen a few birds on and over the sea, though, so not a total write-off.


I am pressed for time, so shall be brief [Stop cheering]. I will find make somehow acquire hopefully get time to write something longer and more blathery before the year's end, but in the mean time, here's a quick roundup of the past three days;


24th.
Got to the Harbour to look for that Northern Guillmot. No sign of it or any other auks, but did see 3 grebes off Torre Abbey / Corbyn's Head. A BNG was close to Corbyn's, with a GC and a [the?] RN Grebe off the Grand. The latter two were for some time side by side and made a nice comparison in the sunshine and howly wind...
I'm supposing this RNG was the one often off Broadsands [which did go missing for a day or two], as there have been so few grebes of any flavour down that having 2 Red-necks in the Bay seems unlikely.

It was nice to have actual sunshine, so I took a piccie of the D-Day Embarkation Ramps;

Big Concrete Ramps.

Now, some might say they're a getting a bit long in the tooth, but compared to the Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches, they're doing pretty well.


25th
After carrying out the usual Festive Rituals*, The Annual Afternoon Perambulation went ahead despite it raining sideways. For some reason, only 3 of us were up for it [and that's including the LBD]. We braved the elements over the Hill, and down to Meadfoot [GND surfing the waves] and around IMD [BTD and 2 GND {roosting?} in Hope Cove] and back late afternoon to dusk.


26th
Eventually stirring from the usual torpor, I wandered over to Blackball for dusk, and was rewarded with a BTD, 6 GND, 2 Guilles, 6 C Scoter [2m, 1+ 1w], a 1w Med Gull, 32+ BHG, 400+ Kittiwake and 1600++ large gulls. No grebes at all. [[What is going on?]]



Right then, time for more fun; cold cuts, red cabbage and smash! :D




[[*These include such terrors as large quantities of alcohol and The Pogues**]]
[[**No, not just Fairytale, the proper stuff.]]