Monday 17 September 2012

Strumble Head 17th Sept.

Time:06.15 - 13.00 then 16.00 - 17.30
Weather:Bright, some rain showers
Wind; W/WSW 4/5

Common Scoter - 29 (1f)
Red Throated Diver - 1 ( Summer plumage )
Sooty Shearwater - 6
Balearic Shearwater - 4
Dunlin - 1
Redshank - 2
Turnstone - 1
Pomarine Skua - 2 ( both 3rd Sum pale with spoons )
Arctic Skua - 7 ( 2 Pale,5 Dark )
Bonxie - 19
Sabines Gull - 2 ( Ad winter & Juv )
Sandwich Tern - 1
Common tern - 2
Arctic Tern - 1
Commic Tern - 1

A constant steady stream of hirundines moving south must have numbered many hundreds.

Many Thanks to Richard Davies for the early totals.