Sorry I meant to post this last week but I inadvertantly posted on our Whales in Wales Blog...
Anyhow Sunday was good, (Yesterday) Lots of Dolphins a couple of Sunfish and of course Gannets on Grassholm and plenty of auks etc around skomer to keep all or snappers happy. Birdwise the only thing of note and following on from last weeks observations, I noticed a coupe of Lesser Black Backs mugging Puffins well away from the islands!
Firstly, Bravo to the Llangwm Swanners! I love it when we get a really positive result from someone going the extra mile!Brilliant result!
So on Sunday prior to taking out paying passengers we needed to give the Cartlett Lady a shake down run to make sure everything is working properly. Having had a good clean of her hull and a lick of paint.she cut therough the water and her engines pushed her along without missing a beat!
We had a look at Skokholm and then around to Skomer where we anchored in South Bay for a cup of tea and to feast our eyes on the Puffins Razorbills and Guillemots rafting around us.from the cliffs we could hear the Kittiwakes as well as the Auks, a wonderful cacophony of vibrant early summer bird life!
On the slopes, Gulls stood sentinel outside some of the Puffin Burrows waiting to mug returning puffins and steal their sand-eels. Other gulls were not so patient and were chasing the puffins in flight and mugging them in the air Skua like. Every instance of this piratical behaviour i witnessed involved Lesser Black Back Gulls,perhaps they are the most agile?
