Tuesday 18 October 2016

Strumble Head 18th October 2016.

Time: 07.30 - 13.00
Weather: Bright all through watch
Wind: NW 6/7

Brent Goose - 1 ( Pale Bellied )
Pintail - 2 ( females )
Shoveler - 5 ( 1 Male, 4 Female )
Common Scoter - 78 ( 67 Males )
Red Throated Diver - 1
Black Throated Diver - 1
Great Northern Diver - 1
Manx Shearwater - 20+
Cormorant - 11
Pomarine Skua - 2 ( 1 Pale, 1 Juv )
Arctic Skua - 16 ( 7 Pale, 6 Dark, 3 Juv )
Long Tailed Skua - 6 ( 4 Juv, 1 1st S, 1 2nd S )
Bonxie - 1
Mediterranean Gull - 11 ( 8 Adult, 3 1st W )
Little Gull - 8 ( 1 adult, 7 1st W )
Sandwich Tern - 1
Arctic Tern - 1 ( Juv )

Porpoises showing occasionally.

Another all 4 Skua day but there probably hasn't been another occasion where a total number of the amount today involved just one Bonxie.

Again a good number of Gannets approx. 700+, Auks were in the 10,000+ region & fairly low numbers of kittiwakes yesterday rose to 10,000+ today.

AR, CG, RHD & two visitors from Dinas Powys, South Wales.