What a weekend!

Seawatching on Saturday morning was fantastic, with big numbers of Great and Arctic Skuas moving South. The highlights though were two juvenile Sabine's Gulls, two juvenile Long-tailed Skuas and two adult Pomarine Skuas.



Great Skuas - our biggest flock was 8!


Velvet Scoters

Then in the afternoon we heard that the coast was covered in migrants. It turned out not to be an exaggeration!

On my local patch I found a Bluethroat and a Greenish Warbler !!!!!!! in amongst Redstarts, Spotted Flycatchers, Pied Flycatchers, Willow Warblers, Garden Warblers, Blackcaps, Lesser whiethroats, Tree Pipit etc. etc.

Today there were much the same birds on the patch but the sun allowed some photographs.


Redstart


Lesser Whitethroat


Pied Flycatcher


Garden Warbler



Spotted Flycatchers (a patch tick yesterday!)


Willow Warbler