Some entertaining sea-watching over today: An early morning watch resulted in 1 adult Long-tailed Skua, another very distant but probable of that species, a Black Guillimot and reasonable numbers of Great and Arctic Skua.
Following this Cotehill's very own birder decided to take the dog for a walk and had another adult Long-tailed fly over his head.
This evening 3 hours of seawatching has resulted in 20 plus of Great and Arctic Skua and another 2 adult Long-tailed Skua's, all of which were going north. The skua's were nearly all close in, or in some cases over head.
The sheer numbers of other seabirds speeding past was impressive, with frequent small flocks of Red-throated Diver, flocks of Gannet, a constant stream of Fulmar and thousands of Auks and Kittiwake.
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