Tuesday 28 August 2012

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.