After a very pleasant few hours back at Filey, I randomly drove to Scarborough - the tide was incoming, the weather pleasant, and so a check of the harbour and surrounding areas seemed like a good idea.
Nothing in the harbour, but a scan of South Bay from the harbour wall revealed several interesting shapes.... the only problem being everything was silhouetted by a low setting sun. An entertaining challenge, and after a while I'd nailed pretty much everything out there, which included:
A Little Auk (first pic) fed actively, surfacing occasionally to consume small fish it'd caught on long, deep dives; a Puffin (second pic), eventually popping up close by before leaving east; a Slavonian Grebe (third pic), which occupied the most impenetrable line of blinding sunny sea for much of the session before drifting south on the waves; two close Great Northern Divers, which I guiltily ignored as they paraded their fishing skills right below me; plus lots of Red-throated Divers, Common Scoters, a Red-breasted Merganser, an Eider and more.
A busy sea and a busy session, and a good choice before heading back to Flamborough for some family time.
Slavonian Grebe
Little Auk (above), Red-throated Diver (below)
Grey Heron, briefly alighting on the Castle wall
Turnstones and Purple Sandpiper
Puffin
Slavonian Grebe
Little Auk (above), Red-throated Diver (below)
Grey Heron, briefly alighting on the Castle wall
Turnstones and Purple Sandpiper
