A walk along the beach at Boulmer on Saturday morning produced one or two interesting species. The tide was out and wader watching was confined to small numbers of ringed plover, dunlin, curlew, oystercatcher and bar-tailed godwit (26).
Out at sea it was relatively quiet with gannets (6) passing north, black-throated diver (1), red-throated diver (2) and a female scaup. There were very few auks and the usual congregations of shags and cormorants appear to have disappeared to their breeding colonies.
There were good numbers of rock pipits and pied wagtails along the strand line and a single Scandinavian rock pipit close to Seaton Point. There were also a small number of buff-tailed bumblebees trying to make their way inland.
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