Pretty much identical
conditions to yesterday – overcast with a blazing, cold easterly wind; I spent
the first three hours seawatching where
there were again thousands of birds passing SE with the highlights being 3 White-billed Divers, 12 Great-northern Divers and an
increased 3,363 Razorbills. The rest of the totals comprised 62
Red-throated Divers, single Red-necked Grebe and Slavonian Grebes, 4 Brent Geese,
542 Common Scoter, 48 Velvet Scoter, 20 Red-breasted Merganser, 4 Purple
Sandpipers, 20 Common Gulls, 158 Kittiwakes, 11 Guillemots, a Black Guillemot
and a good 447 Little Auks.
The area was then fairly quiet with a Slavonian Grebe
in Sevika, a Red-necked Grebe in Verevågen, an increase to 44 Goldeneye, a
Great-spotted Woodpecker, 4 Woodlarks
at Bakkan, a Chiffchaff and 2 Lapland Buntings. There were then 17 Pink-footed Geese and 3
Great-crested Grebes on Kvilljobukta (but not yesterday’s Bewick’s Swans!) and
3 Slavonian Grebes and 2 Great-northern Divers in Nordhasselvika.
Another hour’s seawatch in the afternoon revealed far
fewer birds passing but a 1st winter Little Gull went SE along with 11 Red-throated Divers, 3 Tufted
Ducks, 175 Common Scoter, 3 Velvet Scoter, a Black-headed Gull, a Lesser
Black-backed Gull, 41 Kittiwakes, 124 Razorbills and another 25 Little Auks.
A little look in Vågsvollvika late afternoon then
produced a good flock of 11 Herons, 53 Wigeon and 2 lingering Wheatears.
A rapidly disappearing Little Auk
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