Saturday 9 September 2017

Strumble Head (09 Sep 17)

Time: 0615 - 1000
Weather: Sunny spells
Wind: NW (F7)
Notes: Very productive short session before pond digging duties dragged me away

Sooty Shearwater - 3
Balearic Shearwater - 2
Leach's Petrel - 8
Long Tailed Skua - 2 (Juv & Sub Ad)
Great Skua - 9
Arctic Skua - 12 (8D, 4P)
Sabine's Gull - 8 (2 AdSum, 6 Juv)
Mediterranean Gull - 1 (1stW)
Sandwich Tern - 13
Comic Tern - 2
Common Scoter - 19 (1F, 18M)
Teal - 1
Whimbrel - 9
Bar Tailed Godwit - 1
Knot - 1
Dunlin - 2

Common Porpoise - Showing occasionally

More to follow from Adrian.....

Additions 10.00 - 11.00

Pomarine Skua - 1 ( Pale Adult )
Arctic Skua - 1 ( Dark )
Great Skua - 1
Sabines Gull - 1 ( Adult with dark hood )
Sandwich Tern - 7

Common Dolphin - Approx 12 / 15 animals in a single pod with at least 2 smaller individuals.

Hopefully more to come from Peter & Simon Murray & Graham Powell who were still there.