Tuesday, 5 October 2021

Strumble Head - 100 skua, 20 Leach's Day

Favourable conditions today with a stiff NW (F6) pushed a good selection of birds our way, including a full house of all four skua's. About 20 keen-eyed birders in the lookout resulted in:

64 Arctic skua (39D, 25P), 34 Bonxie, 2 juv Long-tailed and a Pomarine skua. 20 Leach's Petrel, 6 Balearic shearwater, 5 Sabine's gull (4 adult, 1 juv), 2 Grey Phalarope and a 1st w Little gull. 9 Pale-bellied Brent, 7 Red-throated diver, 2 Great Northern diver. 90 Commic Tern, 60 Sandwich tern, 10 Arctic tern. 40+ Dunlin, Turnstone, Ringed plover. 397 Common scoter, a Wigeon and a Pintail.