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Friday 8 June 2012

Exmouth

Lifeboat Station - 0515 - 0900 - 4 great northern diver, 1 sum plum black-throated diver (flew in from east at 0525 and landed, still sat on sea 0815 at least), c30+ fulmar, 6+ manx shearwater, 8 common scoter, 5+ storm petrel, 1 whimbrel, 1+ dunlin, 2+ sanderling, 15+ common tern, 2+ guillemot. Also several gannets, kittiwakes and a few sandwich terns.
Yesterday - 5 little tern off seafront and later off Mudbank with 1 pale-bellied brent goose still and 8+ great crested grebe.