5 ticks in 90 minutes!

it must be a record for this late in the year and all down to a rising spring tide and a fresh east-south-easterly wind; after tea I headed down to the Humber expecting Black Tern at the very least and almost the first birds I saw were two adult Black Terns! there were a lot of birds moving with 300+ Teal and 70+ Shelduck milling around on the estuary along with 8 Common scoter and most surprisingly a flock of 11 Eiders; this species is fairly regular in late October - December but not in August; a couple of juvenile Arctic Terns were picked out amongst the passing Commons and a Guillemot put on a fine performance flying back out to seas on two occasions! finally a passing party of four Common Terns attracted the attention of an adult Arctic Skua completing the five up for the night. This takes the annual tally to 165 and the Scunny list to 187 with some silly birds still missing including amazingly Whinchat and Osprey plus that Green Sand