Following on from the post on the weather forecast, I did a little research into last year's displacement of
Little Auks, and found it was also in the beginning of November.
A report on the Birdguides site (below) describes a similar event in the second week of November 2001. The weather conditions were clearly similar to those of this current week.
Watch this space (or, more likely, other spaces) for another possible arrival. Dylan, of course, has already seen his.....three on Tuesday off Ramsgate.
The website covering north-eastern coast of the continent http://seawatchcgn.free.fr/ has much useful information, as well as entertaining names to try to translate - I particularly like Eiders à duvet and the Labbe parasite.
!!!!!Alerte météo !
Une nouvelle fois de très bonnes conditions sont attendues pour demain (8 novembre) avec du vent local de NW 5-6 Bft mais surtout une très grosse tempête en mer du nord (NW 7-9 Bft) !!!!!!!!!
Un afflux de Mergules nains est probable.
In the event, the following were sighted (click on image to make it legible):
So, only three Little Auks (and 9 at Le Clipon, Dunkirk), although the largest ever counts of Poms and Kittiwakes, and the second largest of Gannets.
A marvellous description of a similar displacement (or wreck) in November 2001 is shown on
Birdguides, again illustrating the meteorological similarity.
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