Wednesday 9 October 2013

Strumble Head 9th Oct ( 2 shifts)

Time: 07.45 - 09.00
Weather: Cloudy
Wind: NW 4

Common Scoter - 197 ( 182 males )
Balearic Shearwater - 7
Leach's Petrel - 1
Pomarine Skua - 1 ( Juv )
Arctic Skua - 3 ( 2 Dark, 1 Pale )
Bonxie - 1
Mediterranean Gull - 2 ( both 1w )


Time: 15.30 - 17.30
Weather: Still cloudy
Wind: NNW 5/6

Red Throated Diver - 1 ( summer Plumage )
Balearic Shearwater - 1
Leach's Petrel - 1
Pomarine Skua - 1 ( Juv )
Arctic skua - 6 ( 3 Dark, 3 Juv )

Noted at both watches a constant stream of Auks, predominantly Razorbills which if we could speculate carried on most of the day would have seen a passage of circa. 25,000 birds.