Saturday, 5 September 2015

Strumble Head (05 Sep 15)

Time: 0600 - 1800
Weather: Sunny.
Wind: NNW (F6) am, NNE (F6) pm

Sooty Shearwater - 1
Arctic Skua - 5 (3D, 2P)
Great Skua - 7
Sandwich Tern - 25
Comic Tern - 7
Common Scoter - 45 (5F, 40M)
Red Throated Diver - 1
Grey Phalarope - 1
Dunlin - 42
Knot - 3
Sanderling - 10
Turnstone - 7

Common Porpoise - Showing off and on all day
Common Dolphin - 8 animals
Bottle Nosed Dolphin - 2 animals

Also a bull Grey Seal seen to play with a live, newly born pup for 10 mins or so.  Later seen with a dead seal pup in its jaws - raw nature...