A trip into the observatory for the first northerly blow of the autumn. As expected, being July, it was reasonably quiet, but 3 hours dodging the showers and driving rain (05:35-06:35, 07:30-08:30 and 09:30-10:30hrs) produced 8 Arctic Skuas west, 3 Kittiwakes (2 adults, 1 juvenile), 9 Fulmars and 126 Gannets. Otherwise it was very quiet, but a single Spoonbill did a couple of laps of the marsh and a Willow Warbler in the scrub along the East Bank was perhaps the first returning bird of the autumn.
