Thursday 31 August 2017

Strumble Head (31 Aug 17)

Time: 0600 - 1400
Weather: Sunny
Wind: NW (F3)
Notes: More of the same today.  Lots of feeding flocks and dolphins dotted around.  First Diver of the season.

Balearic Shearwater - 3
Arctic Skua - 13 (9D, 1P, 3J)
Sabine's Gull - 1 (Ad Sum)
Mediterranean Gull - 2 (1stW)
Sandwich Tern - 23
Comic Tern - 17
Little Tern - 1
Black Tern - 1
Red Throated Diver - 1 (Sum Plum)
Common Scoter - 187 (38F, 149M)
Curlew - 1
Redshank - 5
Knot - 30
Sanderling - 13
Turnstone - 6
Dunlin - 1

Common Porpoise - showing well
Common Dolphin - Lots of small groups dotted around - especially in the tide race
Sunfish - 1