Some sort of birding madness gripped me yesterday, and I went down to Broadsands after work.. Plenty of dog walkers and all the sun and wind meant little doing on land other than Greenfinches, and even the gull squad proved barren of anything fancier than suspicious-looking 1w Herring Gulls. After getting out of the wind, the sea gave up 5 GC Grebe, one in full s/pl, and a very distant Red-throated Diver to the N. The Galatea coming into the bay seemed to be shaping up to be the highlight of the afternoon, but finally scanning caught first one Black-necked Grebe off Broadsands, then another off Elbury. ~30 Kittiwake found a shoal of fish near the surface out in the southern half of the bay and put on a nice show of tern-like diving, with ever-increasing numbers of gulls being attracted to them. Off Brixham harbour, a distant diver sp. took 5 dives before finally posing neatly in the sunshine and showing itself to be Black-throated :t: As I was watching it, I noticed movement right on the horizon, and was amazed to see ~250 auk sp. in groups of 20-30 S in 10 minutes, with 100+ flying into the middle of the bay - appearing to be different individuals from those passing S. Coming back along the ring road, the biggest f. Sparrowhawk I've ever seen flew W across the road in front of me, just N of the Preston Down roundabout. :eek!: