Red-necked Grebe 10 adults summer plumage
Velvet Scoter 10 males
Common Scoter 2
Eider 200
Common Sandpiper 2
Year 219 (Red-necked Grebe)
A chance encounter with a local birder at Musselburgh first thing really paid off, with some good advice to head for nearby Gosford Bay while it was still high tide. Gosford Bay is the best place in the UK for seeing Red-necked Grebe, and it didn't disappoint today, with at least 10 spectacular summer plumage birds. This is a great coast for seabirds, whilst I was scanning for the grebes I kept seeing small flocks of Velvet Scoter and Eider, with plenty of Gannets, sometimes close inshore, and good numbers of Common and Sandwich Terns. This trip has really been a revelation.
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