Weather: F2-3 SW, overcast, bright, clear &
dry (am). F2-3 W, sunny, dry, hazy & warm (pm).
Observer(s): Niall T. Keogh, John ‘Brick’
Dempsey, ‘Er’ Neill Hunt, Barry ‘Bazzo’ McCarthy, Paul ‘Tropical’
Thomason, Noel Keogh & Joe Adamson.
Balearic Shearwater: 2
Sooty Shearwater: 59
Manx Shearwater: c.240
Fulmar: 350+
Storm Petrel: 3
Leach’s Petrel: 6
Red-throated Diver: 6 summer
plumage
Great Skua (Bonxie): 17
Pomarine Skua: 1 pale subadult
Arctic Skua: 6
Kittiwake: c.140
Arctic Tern: 2
Sandwich Tern: 67
Puffin: 4
Black Guillemot: 2
Teal: 8
Common Gull: 8 juv./1st-w
Chough: 10
Merlin: 1
Peregrine: 1
Bottlenose Dolphin: c.8 present throughout the day, showing very well.
Ocean Sunfish: 3
On such a calm, warm & hazy afternoon, it felt like we were in with a chance of a Cory’s. Instead we got a most unexpected run of Leach’s Petrels! Weird.
A trip up to the Fodry this afternoon in search of American waders proved fruitless on that front but a flyover, calling Lapland Bunting and a juv. Sabine's Gull following a trawler offshore made it all worthwhile.
Common Gull: 8 juv./1st-w
Chough: 10
Merlin: 1
Peregrine: 1
Bottlenose Dolphin: c.8 present throughout the day, showing very well.
Ocean Sunfish: 3
On such a calm, warm & hazy afternoon, it felt like we were in with a chance of a Cory’s. Instead we got a most unexpected run of Leach’s Petrels! Weird.
A trip up to the Fodry this afternoon in search of American waders proved fruitless on that front but a flyover, calling Lapland Bunting and a juv. Sabine's Gull following a trawler offshore made it all worthwhile.
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| Bottlenose Dolphin (video grab) © Niall Keogh |
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