A real autumnal feeling
day with complete cloud cover and a strong, cold easterly wind; I went out and
about for the first few hours but there wasn’t much passing Steinodden although
a Purple Sandpiper, a Great-northern Diver, a Slavonian Grebe, a Jack Snipe and
2 Wheatears were out along the coast while birds inland included a Rough-legged Buzzard, a good looking Siberian Chiffchaff in Lebeltet, 3
Northern Bullfinches, 6 Woodlarks at
Bakkan, 150+ Fieldfares, 4 Grey Wagtails, a Great-spotted Woodpecker and a
Short-eared Owl along with much reduced number of Bramblings, Siskins etc.
I got back to the lighthouse mid-morning where there
were thousands of birds streaming SE at sea – they annoyingly must have been
taking a line that missed out Steinodden – typical! The rest of the day was dominated by
seawatching where my highlights were a Leach’s
Petrel and a White-billed Diver
while other bits that I saw included 2 Red-necked Grebes, 2 Scaup, 6 Purple
Sandpipers and a Curlew.
The rest of the days totals (which I saw a good
proportion of) were made up of 144 Red-throated Divers, 170 Gannets, 17 Teal, 7
Tufted Ducks, 13 Long-tailed Ducks, 115 Eiders, 100 Velvet Scoter, 1,510 Common Scoter, 27 Red-breasted
Mergansers, 16 Black-headed Gulls, 123 Common Gulls, 2 Lesser Black-backed
Gulls, 580 Herring Gulls, 90 Great Black-backed Gulls, 471 Kittiwakes, 53 Guillemots, 2,010
Razorbills and 148 Little Auks. A pod of 4-5 Pilot Whales also showed well late morning.
Goldcrests
Little Auk
Record shot of the Siberian Chiffchaff
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