Monday 28 August 2017

Strumble Head (28 Aug 17)

Time: 0600 - 1400
Weather: Cloudy, bright.
Wind: SW (F3-45)
Notes: The wind is back!  ...and with it the birds have gone!  Hard work today with long periods of nothing.  Still a few bait ball feeding flocks dotted around.

Balearic Shearwater - 2
Arctic Skua - 11 (4J, 7D)
Great Skua - 1
Sandwich Tern - 9
Comic Tern - 4
Little Tern - 1
Common Scoter - 88 (15F, 73M)
Tufted Duck - 2
Curlew - 2
Whimbrel - 1
Turnstone - 1
Snipe - 1

Common Porpoise - Showing reasonably well
Common Dolphin - not as many as previous days but pods of 5, 5, 5, 10 and 10 counted.