Computer malfunction prevented me from posting these earlier. These were all from Christmas eve just before it got dark. Sorry for poor quality pic's.
The first time I saw a winter plumage Tystie (Black Guillemot ) was in Lerwick Harbour in the Shetlands nearly thirty years ago. It stumped me at the time until i got back to my books. This seems to be a first winter bird , whether it is one of the young our pair produced or from elsewhere is impossible to know.
I nearly missed the Otter I just caught it before it dived and disappeared I hung about but it was probably hiding in among the concrete blocks.
There were at least four Purple Sandpipers maybe six as I think two i found further along the breakwater may have flown in from where i first located them.
