Saturday 18 August 2012

Strumble Head (18 Aug 12)

Time: 0600 - 1830
Weather: Drizzle (am), sunny (pm)
Wind: SSW (F4)

Sooty Shearwater - 1
Balearic Shearwater - 4
Great Skua - 3
Pomarine Skua - 1 (J)
Arctic Skua - 8 (1P, 7D)
Little Gull - 1 (1stW)
Mediterranean Gull - 1 (1stW)
Comic Tern - 2,133
Sandwich Tern - 30
Black Tern - 177
Little Tern - 9
Roseate Tern - 5
Common Scoter - 34 (5F, 29M)
Teal - 2
Gadwall - 3
Whimbrel - 25
Black Tailed Godwit - 1
Bar Tailed Godwit - 4
Turnstone - 1
Sanderling - 5
Dunlin - 2
Puffin - 1

Sunfish - 2
Seal eating an Auk surrounded by inquisitive Manxies
Common Dolphin - 2 pods (10 and 25)
Bottlenose Dolphin - 1 pod (12)

(The 10 Common Dolphin swam East very close inshore and 15 mins later the Bottlenose came out of the bay, mingled for a while then went back where they came from.  The 25 Common Dolphin were more distant in the bay.  The Sunfish were very active and seen to leap a number of times)