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Sunday 30 April 2017

Splash Point 30/4/17

A brilliant 12 hour seawatch with Richard and others where it wasn't just Poms stealing the show, as an early Balearic Shearwater passed through as did three Manx Shearwaters.

Highlights between 5am - 5pm are as follows: (full totals can be found on Richard's blog)

Great Skua - 10
Velvet Scoter - 25
Whimbrel - 62
Arctic Skua - 44
Grey Plover - 79
Pintail - 4
Common Sandpiper - 1
Gadwall - 8
Turnstone - 4
Black-throated Diver - 2
Knot - 213
Pomarine Skua - 47
Redshank - 1
Teal - 6
Bar-headed Geese - 2
Hobby - 2
Eider - 1 fem
Little Gull - 30
Sanderling - 118
Little Tern - 48
Balearic Shearwater - 1 at 13.10
Manx Shearwater - 3



Pomarine Skua passing Splash Point