Although I did learn that I can't count duck flocks! If you are just as bad as me at estimating flock numbers then try this link here. It's a good game even if it didn't make me any better!
Before 10.00am there was a duckfest and more:
>1000 Teal
>250 Common Scoter
50+ Wigeon
1 Shoveller
1 Gadwall
13 Shelduck
12 Eider
2 Mallard
90+ Manx Shearwaters
1 Sooty Shearwater
1 Pomarine Skua (adult with full spoons)
4 Bonxies
17 Arctic Skuas
10 Little Gulls
2 Whimbrel
and a flock of 12 Common Sandpipers!
How many Teal in this picture? Don't ask me!
2 adult Arctic Skuas make a getaway after nicking a pipefish from this gull!
a juvenile Arctic Skua - one of only a very few past Whitburn so far this year.
10 of the 12 Common Sandpipers - I've never seen a migrating flock of this species before!
Brilliant!
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