Strumble Head (26 Aug 17)

Time: 0600 - 1400
Weather: Sunny
Wind: Calm
Notes: A much better day than expected given no wind!  Sea was like a glass sheet and there were feeding birds across the whole vista.  Excellent visibility.  Common Dolphins probably under estimated and were ever present.

Long Tailed Skua - 1 (Ad Sum with complete tail streamers.  Passed through inside of tide race - superb!)
Pomarine Skua - 2 (Juv)
Arctic Skua - 17 (13P, 4D)
Great Skua - 2
Mediterranean Gull - 1 (1stW)
Sandwich Tern - 20
Comic Tern - 8
Black Tern - 1
Little Tern - 1
Common Scoter - 158 (61F, 97M)
Teal - 13
Whimbrel - 1
Dunlin - 11
Snipe - 1

Common Porpoise - showing very well
Common Dolphin - conservative estimates of pods of 5, 10, 20, 20 and 50+.  The largest pod of 50+ had lots of very young individuals and one adult with no dorsal fin so very distinctive!

Strumble Head 25th August 2017.

Time: 07.45 - 10.30
Weather: Bright, some cloud
Wind: SW2

Common Scoter - 38 ( 34 Males )

Grey Heron - 1

Whimbrel - 1

Arctic Skua - 7 ( 1 Pale, 3 Dark, 3 Juv )

Common Dolphin - A small pod of about 5 seen twice.

Porpoises showing quite well. 

Strumble Head 19th August 2017.

Time: 06.00 - 15.00
Weather: Some cloud but generally bright
Wind: WSW 5/6

Common Scoter - 58 ( 38 Males )

Sooty Shearwater - 1

Balearic Shearwater - 2

Storm Petrel - 8 ( Probably a few more )

Ringed plover - 19

Dunlin - 3

Whimbrel - 5

Redshank - 3

Turnstone - 3

Grey Phalarope - 2

Pomarine Skua - 2 ( Pale Adult & Juv )

Arctic Skua - 8 ( 3 Pale Adult, 5 Dark Adult )

Long Tailed Skua - 1 ( Juvenile )

Bonxie - 10

Sabines Gull - 1 (Full Slate Hooded Adult )

Sandwich Tern - 12

Little Tern - 2

'Commic Tern' - 1

Puffin - 1

Common Dolphin - 12+

Porpoises showing occasionally

Ocean Sunfish - 4

Up to 10 present, with 2 having come from Liverpool for the day !

Strumble Head 18th August 2017.

Time: 05.45 - 14.15
Wind: W4 then SW 5/6

Common Scoter - 20 ( 17 Males )
Sooty Shearwater - 1
Balearic Shearwater - 5
Sanderling - 18
Dunlin - 56
Whimbrel - 9
Grey Phalarope - 1
Pomarine Skua - 1 ( Juv )
Arctic Skua - 7 ( 1 Pale, 6 Dark )
Bonxie - 5
Mediterranean Gull - 2 ( Both Adult )
Sandwich Tern - 3
Commic Tern - 12
Black Tern - 1
Puffin - 4

Risso's Dolphin - 7 ( Including 1 calf )

Chris Grayell

Strumble Head 13th August 2017.

05.45 - 12.45
Wind: very Light W until 10 Then S

Wigeon - 1

Common Scoter - 101 ( 73 Males )

Dunlin - 17

Whimbrel - 5

Turnstone - 1

Arctic Skua - 6 ( 2 Pale, 4 Dark )

Bonxie - 1

Sandwich Tern - 8

Common Tern - 2

Puffin - 1

Common Dolphin - 100+

Chris Grayell 

Strumble Head Early Evening Shift 12th Aug 2017

Time: 16.00 - 18.00
Weather: Sunny
Wind: W 3

Common Scoter - 59 ( 53 Males )

Black Tailed Godwit - 8

Common Dolphin - 2

Porpoises showing occasionally

Wdigbirder & Graham Powell ( AKA Tall Twitcher ! )

Strumble Bonxie

Following on from Chis's report here's some images of the Bonxie that he recorded this morning. First one I've seen an quite a while. Autumn is coming!!!