9th September 2015

Light north-easterly/easterly winds featured throughout the day, with the sun breaking through a thick overcast during the afternoon. Seawatching highlights included a Blue Fulmar, three Balearic Shearwater, five Sooty Shearwaters, 74 Wigeon, 140 Teal, six Shoveler and 297 Common Scoters all moving north. A Pomarine Skua also flew north, as did three first-year Mediterranean Gulls, nine Little Gulls, whilst a Yellow-legged Gull went south. Three Ruff remained on the Golf Course and the sub-adult Caspian Gull remained on the Outer Head, with a Merlin seen nearby.

A juvenile Honey Buzzard appeared low over the Golf Course before drifting west at 1530hrs. Other migrants included a juvenile Red-backed Shrike in the Gorse Field, a Barred Warbler at the southern end of Old Fall Hedge, a Sedge Warbler, six Redstarts, two Wheatears, a male Stonechat, a Pied Flycatcher, eight Siskins and a Snow Bunting.

Blue Fulmar, off Fog Station, by Craig Thomas
Blue Fulmar, off Fog Station, by Craig Thomas
juvenile Honey Buzzard, Outer Head, by Craig Thomas
juvenile Honey Buzzard, Outer Head, by Craig Thomas