A reasonable seawatch this morning included 7 Scaup, 2 splendid summer-plumaged Great Northern Divers, 1 Bonxie, 1 Arctic Tern & 4 Sandwich Terns, all North.
There were 7 Wheatears (3 males, 4 females) at the foghorn, a male Whinchat at the lighthouse car park and another or the same, in the Gorse Field. A Pink-footed Goose was on North Marsh and a 1st summer female White Wagtail at Thornwick Pool along with a Yellow Wagtail. Also on the Outer Head were 2 Common Swift, a male Redstart, an acredula Willow Warbler, 2 Brambling and a Fieldfare amongst the commoner summer visitors which are now busy taking up territories.
An evening seawatch produced 15 Sandwich Terns, 2 Arctic Terns, a Common Tern and two Red throated Divers all bar one of the Sandwich Terns heading north. 8 Woodpigeon attempted twice to head out east to sea before turning back.
The Buckton area 3 Yellow Wagtails, 2 Wheatear and several Corn Buntings singing furiously. A Barn Owl also put in an appeareance here.
