Monday 27 August 2012

Strumble Head (27 Aug 12)

Time: 0600 - 1600
Weather: Rain, rain and lots more rain.  Then it rained some more.
Wind: S (F7-8)

Balearic Shearwater - 3
Great Skua - 5
Arctic Skua - 6 (4D, 2P)
Sabine's Gull - 1 (Ad Win) (Must be a non breeder?)
Comic Tern - 10
Black Tern - 1 (Showing right in front of the lookout for at least 4 hours!)
Whimbrel - 2
Greenshank - 2
Bar Tailed Godwit - 3
Dunlin - 1
Common Scoter - 35 (10F, 25M)
Teal - 3
Mallard - 2
Grey Heron - 1
Swift - 3

Common Porpoise - Showing well on and off.  Riding some of the big rollers on the moving tide.