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Message: <blockquote data-quote="woodhornbirder" data-source="post: 1259653" data-attributes="member: 67249">nother  long walk...through north seaton, down to the river then east to the river  mouth.  There were 40+ redshanks feeding just east of the spine road bridge,  1 whimbrel.On the beach there was a tern roost at the very end of the river,,  inc 1 roseate.Walked round to church point in newbiggin, nothing much there, so went on to beacon point which was heaving with birds!There were ~200 golden plover on the rocks, with 30 turnstones, 8 snipe flew over head a couple  of times.  40+ terns of various types,  no roseate.2 grps of ducks about 20ft from the rocks; 12 common scoter(males) and the other eiders.2 skuas offshore, whic i think were arctic and a bonxie.SO high light for me was seeing the scoter...ive never seen them so closeto shore as that.  was worth the aching limbs )</blockquote>