STOP PRESS

DEVON BIRD NEWS has moved...find it HERE


Wednesday 25 April 2012

Berry Head

Updated 2055hrs:

Seawatching 0600 - 2000hrs 1 sum plum Black Guillemot, 7 Puffin, 2 Great Northern Divers, Red-throated Diver, 4 Pomarine Skuas (all full spooned),75 Great Skuas, 7 Arctic Skuas, Balearic Shearwater, 2000+ Manx Shearwaters, 100+ Sandwich Tern, 11 Common Tern, 23 Arctic Terns, 11 Comic Terns, 22 Whimbrel, 1 Common Scoter, 3 Shoveler and Brent Goose. Good passage of Auks including many Razorbills peaking around 500/hr, good movement of c400 Fulmars including 4 dark (intermediate) birds and one double light bird. Also a Swift

Perhaps the Black Guillemot is the same as the East Devon bird last week - if so where has it been for the last week! Dave Norman Managed to get a few photos of the Black Guillemot as it flew past, hopefully they will be published later.

 ML,MD,DMN,BMcD,KB,SS