Friday 31 August 2012

Strumble Head (31 Aug 12)

Time: 0600 - 1530
Weather: Mainly sunny then rain moving in late afternoon.
Wind: NW (F3) (am) then SW (F5) (pm)

Balearic Shearwater - 2
Great Skua - 4
Arctic Skua - 14 (6D, 6P, 2J)
Comic Tern - 3
Sandwich Tern - 18
Mediterranean Gull - 1 (1st W)
Whimbrel - 1
Curlew - 1
Sanderling - 3
Turnstone - 6
Dunlin - 5
Knot - 1
Great Crested Grebe - 1

Common Scoter - 42 (4F, 38M)
Teal - 1
Merlin - 1 (chasing Rock Pipit just below lookout at 1530)

Common Porpoise - showing on and off with a number of animals tail slapping.