Sea bird bonanza at Alkborough Flats!

A slight exaggeration but what a day, with deck chairs and rug for pain relief! we perched up on the hillside protected from the easterly wind and in full sunshine where we watched for 7 hours.  Thousands of Pink Footed Geese spent the day commuting between their feeding grounds and the roost site of Whitton Sands and whilst watching and listening to this spectacular sight along with the antics of a juvenile Peregrine we noticed a disturbed group of gulls and quickly picked up the culprit, a Bonxie.  The sighting of this and news of other seabirds at the Humber Bridge made us focus more on the river and several hours later we had logged a pale morph juvenile Long-tailed Skua and two dark morph juvenile Arctic Skuas, all three skuas seen together giving good comparison on structure and size of the two species.  To finish off two juvenile Gannets made their way up the Humber turned left down the Trent and disappeared from view over Blacktoft Sands.