Saturday, 23 November 2024

Storm Bert

The weather has been wild today as Storm Bert has been battering the UK. I was on dad duty this morning so missed the daily Selsey Seawatch which produced a Sooty Shearwater, Great Skua and Fulmars HERE but I was able to get in a couple of hours between eleven and one and then I returned with Isaac for another hour around 3pm (I used five bananas to keep him quiet while I seawatched from Hillfield Road Car Park). Highlights were a movement of 96 Kittiwakes going East (some very close at the Car Park), 25 Common Scoter, 15 Red-breasted Merganser, another Black-throated Diver, 7 Great Northern and 3 Red-throated Diver and 2 Bar-tailed Godwits. Ebird list HERE

The weather continues tomorrow so looking forward to what tomorrow may bring. 



Kitiwakes on the move (above) . Kittiwakes have been recorded inland all week (see HERE) including small flocks at the old stomps in Oxon and also at Beddington Farmlands. Inland sightings have been in a central inland belt between Sheffield and London. There were also 500 moving past Dungeness on Friday and 4 Sabine's there today too. Also the odd Leach's at Portland and in Kent today. 
Female/juvenile Common Scoters 
Great Northern Diver , the dark bars on the auxillaries are well shown on this image 
Male Red-breasted Merganser 
Black-throated Diver 
Juvenile/ first-winter Shag
Bar-tailed Godwits 
Great Northern Diver and Storm Bert 

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