At the end of last year a black guillemot had been seen off Seaview. But it had only been seen briefly by one lucky observer and subsequently was seen leaving the area. Despite that part of the island getting fairly good coverage (by island standards anyway) seemingly nothing more came of it - though sightings of one in Hampshire suggest it's been on the move.
Fortunately it came back to Seaview.
As I was scanning across the solent, enjoying the odd slav grebe and GN diver; suddenly an auk flew in from the east and pitched in. It drifted with a slav grebe for a time. I got my scope on it and pretty much instantly thought it was a black guillemot, but it was distant and my identification of it was based mostly on its jizz; so I put the news out.
It soon took flight and again I noted the key features: as it banked it showed off its upper wing pattern with the distinguishable white patches clearly discernable.
Nice!
Edit: it was seen again with better pics and closer confirmatory views.
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