Sunday 21 August 2016

Strumble Head 21st August 2016.

Time: 06.00 - 13.00
Weather : Some bright spells, rain after 12.00
Wind: WNW 6/8 then SSW decreasing

Common Scoter - 25 ( 23 Males )
Red Breasted Merganser - 1
Cory's Shearwater - 1 ( @ 06.20 )
Great Shearwater - 3 ( 06.40, 06.47, 7.20 )
Sooty Shearwater - 9
Balearic Shearwater - 1
Storm Petrel - 18 ( Possibly a few more )
Dunlin - 14
Knot - 1
Black Tailed Godwit - 2
Whimbrel - 3
Turnstone - 4
Arctic Skua - 25 ( 8 Pale, 17 Dark )
Bonxie - 24
Sandwich Tern - 36
Black Tern - 1
'Commic Tern' - 24

A few Porpoise showing.

A great morning, well attended from near & far. Pic by Paul Grennard.




                                            Great Shearwater ( Pic. Mark Hipkin )