Monday, 4 August 2025

Seawatching on the south coast

A few seawatching shifts around work today produced a few notable birds, the highlight being a distant Great Shearwater picked up in a Manx Shearwater feeding flock off Old Castle Head around lunchtime. Also moving past was 2 European Storm-petrel, 9 Sandwich Tern and a dark-phase adult Arctic Skua

This evening I spent a couple of hours at St Govan's Head. The wind had shifted WNW and strong light made viewing a little tricky but it was worth it with a nice close Balearic Shearwater past amongst 3,000+ Manx Shearwater.