The highlights of the three-hour sea watch were a Sooty Shearwater west at 12:59 and a lone Adult Little Gull at 11:53. Leach's petrel still eludes me; though one was reported off Ventnor at 2:30pm, an hour or so after I had left St. Cath's! Thems the breaks huh....Kittwakes were constantly passing, and I counted 370 westward moving birds (adults and first winters). Also, a movement of auk sp (c200) and a couple of divers, singles of BT and RT, all west. One Porpoise present. Some context: Dungeness to the east of me had three sooty shears and 495 kittiwakes etc; Cornwall to the west had a couple of sooty shears too. And one seen off Hants coast a couple of days after on the 26th.
Nov 25th (Friday): Bonchurch Down, sunny, moderate westerly, early AM: really felt like the end of vis mig for this autumn. A Golden Plover was about it...
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