Early morning's always best, although sometimes late afternoon/early evening can be good. Never seen so many sooty shears in one go before as this morning, although most were far out. Hardly anything in Bay of Biscay when I was over there a couple of weeks ago. Must all be coming here, as the 100s of Great Shears reported of Lewis and the double figures in Norfolk would suggest.
Unfortunately not looking that great for seawatching or an east coast fall until at least after next weekend, unless that messy system of lows moves east over the North Sea rather than just west of Iceland. Might be a fairly good northward movement of stuff off the east coast today and tomorrow still though.
Would be interested to know what others think. I always recon that in a strong NW, doing seawatching off the North Norfolk Coast is best first thing in the morning, but the east coast can be productive later on with a northward movement of stuff that's been pushed into the bit between here and Holland.