With the wind picking up from a northerly direction, after a fruitless look around the bushes in the lighthouse area, I embarked on a bit of seawatching and in the process of setting up I noticed a number of birds perched on the lifeboat ramp at the end of the pier.
Upon getting my scope on them I was delighted to see that they were as I had hoped Shags, the first of the year. Initially there was about half a dozen but as time went on more birds flew in to roost on the ramp, and there was probably up to twenty birds present in all.
Other highlight of the seawatch were a couple of Velvet Scoter which headed west, and it was also good to see large numbers of Kittiwakes on the move too.
