Sunday 24 August 2014

Strumble Head (24 Aug 14)

Time: 0600 - 1800
Weather: Cloudy, drizzle late afternoon.
Wind: SSE (F5)

Great Shearwater - 1 (East @ 1225 at long range)
Pomarine Skua - 1 (Juv)
Arctic Skua - 1 (D)
Great Skua - 1
Mediterranean Gull - 1 (1stW)
Sandwich Tern - 30
Comic Tern - 9
Common Scoter - 8 (2F, 6M)
Whimbrel - 15
Redshank - 1
Dunlin - 31
Knot - 4
Grey Heron - 2

Common Porpoise - Showing very well.  (Leaping, tail slapping etc)
Common Dolphin - 2 pods of 10 and 15 including some very small young.
Risso's Dolphin - 8 (Showing for about 1 hour loafing around, tail slapping, logging, sky hopping etc).