Sunday 22 October 2017

Strumble Head 22nd Oct 2017.

Time: 07.30 - 16.00
Weather: Mostly Cloudy with some Showers
Wind: WNW 6/7

Brent Goose - 20 ( Pale Bellied )
Common Scoter - 44 ( 41 Males )
Red Throated Diver - 2
Black Throated Diver - 1
Great Northern Diver - 5
Storm Petrel - 5
Leach's Petrel - 5 ( One of which was not seen until taken by a Peregrine )
Golden Plover - 1
Pomarine Skua - 10 ( 9 Pale Adults, some with spoons. Sgl Dark Adult with spoons )
Arctic Skua - 31 ( 24 Pale, 6 Dark, 1 Juv )
Bonxie - 30
Sabine's Gull - 2 ( 1 Ad, 1 Juv )
Little Gull - 5 ( All 1st w )
Sandwich Tern - 1
Little Tern - 1
Arctic Tern - 1
Black Guillemot - 1 ( Winter Plumage )

Risso's Dolphin - 1
Porpoises showing occasionally in rough seas

The extremely chilly Lookout well attended today & paid dividends.