More Ketchup. Pt.1, Yes, That Seawatching Post

What do you mean 'what seawatching post??'....

I said I'd do it, and while there may have been technical issues and a certain amount of temporal squeeze, it's here, isn't it?

Ahem.

Anyways, a burst of seawatching from the Nose back in December [last month, you know? Just.      Ok, yes 'last year' is also techncially correct but that's neither here nor there] and I suffered an attack of comparisons.

Thus this nonsense.

Also some of my usual [ie. awful] pics.

Oh dear.

Great Northerns

Ok, so that one's not so awful, but don't worry, worse to come.

But first, as threatened, promised, some numbers and such, as to passing birds.

Right.

Four watches over a week total time, of different lengths, equalised into hourly rates;

Gannet                       40        62       105      45

Kittiwake                  190       72        15       15

Auks                         500      685       93       70

Fulmar                       16         5         23        9

Common Gull            24        2          2         5

All southerly passage only.

Total numbers of selected species, again all passing South only;

GND                           1         0          9         9

RTD                            4         1          0         1

Manx Shearwater        0         0         1          0

Common Scoter          0         0         3          4

Curlew                        0         0         7          0

Redpoll                       7         0         0          0

Also of interest,

GNDs on the sea        3         2         8         15

[All in addition to

passage birds]

The Curlew were close

Common Scoter

GND and Gannet

Same GND, came by close.

Don't click on this, btw

An interesting gull assortment

BOGOF on Meds

I have more, but we'll leave it there, I think.

Be Seeing You...