Wednesday 29 August 2012

Strumble Head (29 Aug 12)

Time: 0600 - 1600
Weather: Sunny.
Wind: SW (F7)

Balearic Shearwater - 4
Great Skua - 4
Pomarine Skua - 1 (1D)
Arctic Skua - 7 (3D, 4P)
Sabine's Gull - 1 (Ad W)
Comic Tern - 55
Sandwich Tern - 21
Black Tern - 4
Whimbrel - 3
Curlew - 4
Bar Tailed Godwit - 3
Black Tailed Godwit - 1
Dunlin - 3
Knot - 10
Turnstone - 4
Common Scoter - 31 (7F, 24M)

Teal - 1

[Note all of the above except for 7 terns and 5 waders were seen prior to 11am - very quiet after that point]

Sunfish - 2 (including the smallest one I have ever seen - about the size of a dinner plate)
Common Porpoise - showing well on and off.