Monday 22 June 2009

Autumn's here!

Even though it was quite warm at Druridge tonight, sunny, with a light easterly moving to s'easterly wind, Autumn is upon us, I had 5 pale-bellied brent geese flying north offshore tonight!

Even though this heralds the beginning of Autumn, they were a welcome year tick as was arctic skua, two of them loitering in the bay. The Scoter flocks sum is now approaching 300.

116 brent goose
117 arctic skua

4 comments:

Alan Tilmouth said...

Factually incorrect and plainly just scaremongering, you'll be telling me there was aGreat Northern Diver off Hadston next....

Stewart said...

I agree Iain, the nights are cutting in now and I had an adult Cuckoo on the shore up here obviously on its way south...oh and there was a GN Diver off Hadston too....

Warren Baker said...

Lapwing on my patch, - means autumn is here!

Alan Gilbertson said...

I saw the same brents passing close in at Hauxley point. Good passage of manxies too.

GND off the burn mouth at chev on Sunday.