Sunday 28 August 2016

Strumble Head (28 Aug 16)

Time: 0600 - 1800
Weather: Misty and poor vis until 1pm then clear.
Wind: Calm (early am), then S (F2-4) until 12noon then W (F4) until 2pm then N (F5-6)

Great Shearwater - 1 (@ 1455 tracking behind the ferry - seems to have been reported from the ferry as well according to the pager)

Sooty Shearwater - 1
Balearic Shearwater - 2
Great Skua - 2
Arctic Skua - 5 (3D, 2P)
Sandwich Tern - 35
Comic Tern - 11
Common Scoter - 132 (11F, 121M
Wigeon - 3
Shoveler - 1
Bar Tailed Godwit - 2
Dunlin - 6
Puffin - 2

Risso's Dolphin - 5 (one group including one large white bull male)
Common Dolphin - 20 (one pod feeding in tide race)
Common Porpoise - showing on and off all day