Monday 29 August 2011

Strumble (29 Aug 2011)

Time: 0600 - 1600
Weather: Sunny
Wind: N (F4-5 early morning then F2-3)

Balearic Shearwater - 6
Pomarine Skua - 3 (3J)
Arctic Skua - 22 (6P, 14D, 2J)
Great Skua - 10
Common Scoter - 9 (2F, 7M)
Mediterranean Gull - 4 (1Ad, 3J)
Little Gull - 2 (2J)
Roseate Tern - 3
Little Tern - 1
Sandwich Tern - 39
Comic Tern - 7
Whimbrel - 3
Black Tailed Godwit - 4 (East into bay)
Bar Tailed Godwit - 2
Puffin - 1

(Between 1200 and 1600 the only birds of note were 13 Sandwich Terns - a slow afternoon!)

Sunfish - 2
Common Porpoise - small numbers most of day