Strumble Head (31 Aug 12)

Choughs and Ravens showing well today.
(This Chough is ringed with 4 rings - one with number "C1".  I have photoshopped out the bling!)

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.

Strumble Head (30 Aug 12)

Time: 0600 - 1830
Weather: Sunny with occasional showers
Wind: N (F7-8)

Sooty Shearwater - 6
Balearic Shearwater - 18
Great Skua - 15
Arctic Skua - 36 (21D, 13P, 2J)
Long Tailed Skua - 2 (2J)
Sabine's Gull - 3 (1Ad Sum, 2J)
Mediterranean Gull - 1 (1st W)
Comic Tern - 30
Sandwich Tern - 235
Little Tern - 1
Black Tern - 8
Whimbrel - 1
Dunlin - 9
Turnstone - 6
Ringed Plover - 1
Pale Bellied Brent Goose - 1 (East)
Common Scoter - 28 (8F, 20M)
Puffin - 2

Sunfish - 2
Common Porpoise - showing on and off, some leaping out of waves.

Strumble Head (29 Aug 12)

Time: 0600 - 1600
Weather: Sunny.
Wind: SW (F7)

Balearic Shearwater - 4
Great Skua - 4
Pomarine Skua - 1 (1D)
Arctic Skua - 7 (3D, 4P)
Sabine's Gull - 1 (Ad W)
Comic Tern - 55
Sandwich Tern - 21
Black Tern - 4
Whimbrel - 3
Curlew - 4
Bar Tailed Godwit - 3
Black Tailed Godwit - 1
Dunlin - 3
Knot - 10
Turnstone - 4
Common Scoter - 31 (7F, 24M)
Teal - 1

[Note all of the above except for 7 terns and 5 waders were seen prior to 11am - very quiet after that point]

Sunfish - 2 (including the smallest one I have ever seen - about the size of a dinner plate)
Common Porpoise - showing well on and off.

Tresinwen (28 Aug 12)

Wood Warbler in the garden this evening.  Catching insects around the pond.

Strumble Head (28 Aug 12)

Time: 0600 - 1700
Weather: Sunny.
Wind: W (F4) (early am) then SW (F4-5) then S (F5-6) (pm)

Sooty Shearwater - 2
Balearic Shearwater - 3
Great Skua - 5
Pomarine Skua - 2 (1J, 1D)
Arctic Skua - 17 (10D, 7P)
Comic Tern - 73
Sandwich Tern - 28
Black Tern - 3
Little Gull - 2 (1st W)
Mediterranean Gull - 3 (1st W)
Whimbrel - 9
Curlew - 4
Redshank - 1
Dunlin - 1
Sanderling - 3
Turnstone - 1
Common Sandpiper - 1
Common Scoter - 20 (3F, 17M)

Sunfish - 2
Common Porpoise - showing on and off and better late afternoon.
Common Dolphin - 3 pods (c.7, c.8 and c.15) - maybe up to 5 or 6 different pods - hard to tell.

Pen Anglas

This morning at least 15 Whitethroats in one small area,several Chiffchaffs around and a single Wheatear.
A single Bonxie off shore.
A Sedge Warbler near Jordanston