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16th Apr

A day of mostly seawatching in strong SW winds. The highlights were three Eider, three Velvet Scoters, 562 Common Scoters, five Red-breasted Mergansers, two Little Gulls, 17 Mediterranean Gulls, an excellent total of 38 Arctic Skuas, two Great Skuas, a Little Tern and two Manx Shearwaters. A small arrival of birds on the land included a Lesser Whitethroat and a Ring Ouzel.

Eleven Porpoise and a Grey Seal were feeding offshore.