A comparatively quiet day after yesterdays wintry flurry, the highlights at the southern end of the island were confined to a small selection of winter thrushes plus a good count of the over-wintering waders including 12
Purple Sandpipers and five
Turnstones. The North end of the island was far more productive with some excellent early winter counts. The combined tallies from the Harbour and Ferrybridge included a singles of
Black-
throated Diver and
Knot, two
Great Northern Divers, four each of
Great Crested Grebe and
Common Scoter, eight
Black-
necked Grebes and 31
Red-
breasted Mergansers. Elsewhere on the island the lingering
Yellow-
browed Warbler remained at Penn Castle.