Thursday, 17 September 2026

Strumble Head

A freshening 4-6 W- NW brought a handful of Strumblers and a good selection of passing birds. Highlights: 2 Leach's petrel, 1 storm petrel, min 6 Grey phalarope, a sooty shearwater, a balearic shearwater, 2 adult Sabines gull, 5 Little gull, 10 Arctic skua and 2 Bonxie, as well as c100 Scoter, 9 whimbrel, 4 barwit, 4 ringed plover and 2 dunlin. A trickle of commic terns. Good numbers of common dolphin showing most of the session, always hard to estimate true numbers but likely 50-100 individuals.