30th October

The overcast skies and very strong, cold easterly winds remained but this time with added murk and occasional light drizzle; the sea was a bit quieter in the first three hours but totals did include 2 White-billed Divers, 2 Great-northern Divers, 2 Red-necked Grebes and 5 Scaup along with 44 Red-throated Divers, 5 Tufted Ducks, 2 Long-tailed Ducks, 465 Common Scoter, 27 Velvet Scoter, 3 Red-breasted Mergansers, 67 Kittiwakes, 989 Razorbills and 86 Little Auks.

                The afternoon was also quiet in the dreary conditions with 2 Wheatears on Skarvodden, a group of 9 Herons south and a young male Peregrine looking at home out on Steinodden now that the Gyrfalcon seems to have moved off while inland the only birds of note were a male Lesser-spotted Woodpecker in Lebeltet Nord with a Tit flock (only the second I’ve seen this year!) and a Rough-legged Buzzard hovering out over the fields.

 

Migrating Herons