Biting ENE breeze with the odd flurry of snow falling. 51 Cormorants & 4 Common Scoter went north with singles of Red-throated Diver & Shelduck south. It's not as bad as it sounds as a couple of thousand gulls are offshore to go through although most are far to far out for identification purposes. A second-winter Yellow-legged Gull was in the near part of the dock loafing amongst just a handful of gulls & the regular pair of Peregrines were on the out of the wind side of the old dock crane.