Tuesday 10 July 2018

Back in black....with a bit of silver

 5 Sooty Shearwaters went north in over 4 hours on our sea watch this morning. They had a good supporting cast but the Med Gulls did it for me they were a bit special. Add in the Tall Ships and it was canny like. I was joined by Saint Mark and later Pink Floyd, Stoney was in the house.
This is what we saw in order of appearance, I've included a compilation video and some boats

Tuesday 10th July 04.25-08.45 N3 6/8

Gannet 702n 64s
Curlew 3n 1s
Common Gull 13n 5s
Manxie 131n 2s
Puffin 299n 84s
Sooty Shearwater 5n
Common Tern 49n 10s
Fulmar 53n 4s
Black h Gull 30n 4s
Sandwich Tern 8n 19s
Common Scoter 17n 4s
Arctic Skua 7n 2s
Arctic Tern 11n
Whimbrel 4n 1s
Teal 60n 3s
Bonxie 3n 1s
LBBGull 2n
Med Gull 2s both ads different birds
Swift 2n
Red th Diver 2n
Porpoise 1s
Eider 2n
Redshank 1s
Shag 1s
Red br Merganser 1n