Sunrise at Watchpoint Worlds End

In the absence of Simon there was no ringing today so me, Amelie and Martin went to monitor some migration from World’s End point 1. As the sun rose from behind the sea I immediately knew I wasn’t going to need a warm coat today.

It was wonderful to count the gannets moving Southeast. Between 07:00 and 08:00 we counted around 100, but between 09:00 and 10:00 a further 250 had moved Southeast. Among the gannets; a variety of divers, scoters and skuas. So we decided to move closer to worlds end watch point 3.

From here Martin found me a velvet scoter close to shore – another long due first for me! There was a steady movement of arctic skuas, great skuas and red throated divers too mostly southeast.

Meanwhile Amelie had noticed some tracks in the sand dunes, so we tried to identify the possible culprits...

Possible beetle tracks?

White wagtail

A less eventful afternoon led to a great home cooked quiche meal by Martin with Amelie, Simon and our two guests from the lighthouse.

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People: Martin Grienenberger, Simon S. Christiansen, Amelie Zeller, Angus Barnett,