Seawatching In The Rain

Early morning saw me at the raised beach huts at the far end of Exmouth Seafront to do a seawatch , I arrived to see fellow birder Matt Knott already there just as the rain started to fall . At first the only things on show was a flock of Black-Headed Gulls but after a while I started to pick out quite a few Northern Gannet going through , there was also 20+ Common Scoter , 20+ Black-Legged Kittywake , a Great Northern Diver , a Red-Throated Diver and a distant Arctic Skua that I saw for a short spell before it was lost from view in the increasing  bad weather .... winter is here !