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26th Apr

Bright and sunny conditions with a fresh NE breeze resulted in very little on the land and a steady easterly passage offshore. A 13hr seawatch from first light produced a Long-tailed Duck and a Puffin of note while numbers and backup were provided by 20 Shelduck, 143 Common Scoters, three Red-breasted Mergansers, 13 Grey Plovers, 63 Whimbrels, 1612 Bar-tailed Godwits, 153 Common Terns, 210 Sandwich Terns, 20 Little Gulls, five Arctic Skuas, a Great Skua, 12 Fulmars and 103 Gannets

It was very quiet on the land with our first Common Sandpiper of the year at the Long Pits, a Jay over the area and a small arrival of Lesser Whitethroats of interest.

Two Porpoises and a Grey Seal were feeding offshore.