Last week we went up to Fife Ness and spent some time in the Fife Bird Club hide near Crail. Usually we have the place to ourselves but on this occasion we shared the hide with 4 experienced sea watchers from the Bird Club. I'm not sure sea watching though is our thing, our sea bird identification skills are poor and although there were large numbers of birds on passage, I couldn't identify them moving that fast and that far out.
Not so for our hide partners, they were calling out all manner of birds as we sat and took it all in. Having said that with their direction we did manage to get eyes on a Sabines Gull and a Sooty Shearwater. Both of which were lifers for us. Other birds passing through, there were huge numbers of Kittiwakes;
The Kittiwakes were a bit closer, so I took a record shot! Others that flew by were; Little Gull, Common Scoter, Red-throated Diver and Manx Shearwater. The experts also saw Arctic and Great Skua but we didn't see those.
Apart from the passage birds there of course plenty of Gulls, Cormorant, Shag and Gannets about.
After leaving the hide we explored the nearby rocks;
Redshank & Turnstone,
and another Curlew:
It was a great afternoon out!
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