Seabird Paradise all along the Severn 9/2/14

After nights of wind and rain the seabirds came up the funnel shaped River Severn.

SevernBeach

• 1 Puffin- 6th record for Severnside area
• 7 guillemots- with puffin
• 1 fulmar taken ill and 1 yesterday
• 100+ kittiwakes both today and yesterday
• Purple sandpiper both days
• 1 little gull
• 1 razorbill yesterday

SARA

• 1 great skua
• 1 little gull
• 1 gannet
• 300+ kittiwakes- 2nd highest Glos record
• 8 guillemots- very high count and all alive
• 4 GUILLEMOTs- Saw them at SARA. A record flock of 3 flew through and another one from Slimbridge WWT was extremely close to the wall where we were standing above.
• 1+ KITTIWAKE- my 1st of the year flew through
• 30+ cormorants

Slimbridge WWT

• 3-4 guillemots
• 2 little gulls- 1st winter and adult
• 1 gannet- SARA bird
• 1 Glaucous gull on both days
• 1 brent goose still
• Kittiwakes

My SARA Guillemot photos