Holiday ect...

After a good week of bird watching I am just going to list what intersting things I saw rather than adding the boring details.

Stranraer Harbour : 7th August
6 Great Crested Grebe
2 Black Guillemot - (Lifer)

Irish Sea: 7th August
10 Gannet
4 Fulmar
7 Guillemot- (Lifer)
50+ Manx Shearwater - (Lifer)

Undisclosed Site: 8th August
1 Hooded Crow- (Lifer)

Baltray Saltmarsh: 11th August
100+ Curlew
2 Little Egret

Baltray Sea, Burn and Sand Dunes: 11th August
2 Goldcrest
3 Stonechat Familys
2 Sandwich Terns
2 Arctic Terns
1 Whimbrel - (Lifer)

Caerlaverock: 13th August
1 Fox
1 Great Grey Shrike- (Lifer)
1 Whooper Swan
1 Merlin

Back in England:

Holywell Pond: 15th August
1 Ruddy Duck
1 Shoveler
1 Gadwall
Mallards
4 Great Crested Grebe
6 Little Grebe
6 Mute Swan
2 GBB Gull
1 Greenshank-( Lifer)

Grindon Lough: 16th August
1 Curlew
1 Wilson's Phalarope- (Lifer)

Arcot pond: 16th August
2 Mute Swan
6 Moorhen
2 Coot
10 Mallard
3 BH Gull
1 Mandarin Duck - Patch Tick

Some good lifers as well as some that I'm embarrased to say that I have not seen yet.
Oh well getting nearer.