Strumble Head 10th August ( Short Early Evening Shift ).

A short watch between 17.30 & 19.30 produced 2 Dark Phase Arctic Skuas & a single Male Common Scoter. Manx numbers were a bit laboured to start with but had picked up by the end.

Common Sandpiper

A single Common Sandpiper on the pond at Llanychaer this evening.

Strumble Head 8th August 16.

Time: 05.45 - 11.00
Weather: Bright, some cloud
Wind: WNW 5/6

Common Scoter - 15 ( 10 Males )
Fulmar - Coming through consistently, in excess of 100
Sooty Shearwater - 3
Balearic Shearwater - 2
Cory's Shearwater - 1 ( 07.05 )
Great Shearwater - 2 ( 07.15 & 08.35 )
Dunlin - 9
Whimbrel - 11
Arctic Skua - 2 ( Both Dark )
Bonxie - 2
Mediterranean Gull - 1 ( Juv )
Sandwich Tern - 1
Puffin - 3

Porpoise started showing late on in the watch.

AR & RHD

 

Flagpoles 15.00 7th Aug 16.

Nothing to report really until a loud Emergency Vehicle siren came past & helped by a young lad clambering along the rocks on the Fishguard side, in the ensuing panic 9 Whimbrel flew out & landed on the beach & it looks like the oystercatcher numbers are starting to increase slightly as is usual for early August. Black Headed Gulls numbering around 40 but no Meds.

Strumble Head 4th August 16.

Time: 05.30 - 14.00
Weather: Mostly Cloudy
Wind: W 5/6 - Then WSW 3/4

Common Scoter - 9 ( 6 Males )
Fulmar - Passing consistently all day, not counted but in excess of 300

Sooty Shearwater - 4

Storm Petrel - 5

Whimbrel - 1

Curlew - 1

Pomarine Skua - 1 ( Pale Winter Adult )

Bonxie - 4

Mediterranean Gull - 3 ( All Juvs )

Little Tern - 1

Sandwich Tern - 4

Common Dolphin - 3

Bottlenose Dolphin - 2 ( Widely suspected to be Apache & Ringo of Whales in Wales fame ! )

Porpoise - Showing well off & on

Ocean Sunfish - 1

Strumble Head 3rd August 16

Time: 05.15 - 12.15 / 14.00 - 16.00
Weather: Bright, Showery
Wind: SSW 5/6

Common Scoter - 12 ( 8 Males )

Dunlin - 3

Turnstone - 1

Grey Phalarope - 1

Arctic Skua - 1 ( Dark )

Mediterranean Gull - 8 ( 1 Ad, 2 2nd Sum, 5 Juvs )

Sandwich Tern - 4

Common Tern - 1

Thousands of Manxies in the 2nd period.

Chris Greyall 05.15 - 12.15

Myself 2nd watch 14.00 - 16.00

Fishguard Breakwater Oykers update...

The overly late nesting "Oykers" are still hanging in there and the egg remains, fascinating!