Wednesday 31 August 2016

Strumble Head (31 Aug 16)

Time: 0600 - 1700
Weather: Rain at dawn then clear and sunny.
Wind: SSW (F5) (am to 0800) then W (F5-4)

Sooty Shearwater - 1
Balearic Shearwater - 4
Arctic Skua - 12 (6D, 4P, 2J)
Great Skua - 2
Sandwich Tern - 11
Comic Tern - 46
Roseate Tern - 2
Little Tern - 6
Black Tern - 2
Mediterranean Gull - 3 (1stW)
Little Gull - 6 (4 1stW, 2Ad)
Common Scoter - 47 (4F, 43M)
Teal - 6
Whimbrel - 1
Black Tailed Godwit - 1
Dunlin - 23
Ringed Plover - 1

Risso's Dolphin - c5 individuals that seemed to be fishing alone
Bottlenose Dolphin - c3
Common Dolphin - c30 (including a group at 1620 showing really close that included about 5 adults and 5 young, 3 of which were as small as I have ever seen - can't have been much bigger than 18 inches!)
Common Porpoise - Lots and showing well.