Saturday 19 August 2017

Strumble Head 19th August 2017.

Time: 06.00 - 15.00
Weather: Some cloud but generally bright
Wind: WSW 5/6

Common Scoter - 58 ( 38 Males )
Sooty Shearwater - 1
Balearic Shearwater - 2
Storm Petrel - 8 ( Probably a few more )
Ringed plover - 19
Dunlin - 3
Whimbrel - 5
Redshank - 3
Turnstone - 3
Grey Phalarope - 2
Pomarine Skua - 2 ( Pale Adult & Juv )
Arctic Skua - 8 ( 3 Pale Adult, 5 Dark Adult )
Long Tailed Skua - 1 ( Juvenile )
Bonxie - 10
Sabines Gull - 1 (Full Slate Hooded Adult )
Sandwich Tern - 12
Little Tern - 2
'Commic Tern' - 1
Puffin - 1

Common Dolphin - 12+
Porpoises showing occasionally
Ocean Sunfish - 4

Up to 10 present, with 2 having come from Liverpool for the day !