After yesterdays variety, seawatching today was a bit of a let down with the number of birds on the move vastly reduced, with most notably a virtual absence of any wildfowl moving.
I still managed c6 Little Auks, with 4 singles on the sea by the pier at various points during the day, and a couple more whizzing through in the afternoon. A handful of Red-breasted Mergansers, Goldeneye and Eider were noted passing by along with a couple of flocks of Wigeon and Brents but that was about it on the wildfowl front.
A lot of Gulls were feeding close in just beyond the breakers with a good number of Kittiwakes amongst them, along with a single Little Gull, Shag, a few Guillemots and a Red-throated Diver, but sadly the flock failed to drag in anything better.
A break from seawatching during the middle of the day produced a Snow Bunting along the cliffs by the lighthouse and revealed that good numbers of Blackbirds had come in, but not surprisingly with the coast being battered by the wind little else was noted.
