Tuesday 29 August 2017

Strumble Head (29 Aug 17)

Time: 0600 - 1400
Weather: Drizzle early then bright and cloudy
Wind: NNW (F4-3)
Notes: Slow start but then a nice passage of skuas, a few tubenoses at last and still dolphins and bait ball feeding flocks about.

Sooty Shearwater - 2
Balearic Shearwater - 4
Arctic Skua - 20 (8D, 12P)
Great Skua - 5
Mediterranean Gull - 3 (1 Ad, 2 1stW)
Sandwich Tern - 20
Comic Tern - 28
Common Scoter - 56 (18F, 38M)
Whimbrel - 1

Common Porpoise - showing well
Common Dolphin - small pods scattered along the tide race seemed to be feeding rather than playing about.
Sunfish - 2