Friday 8 June 2012

Sea birds

Fulmar

Manx Shearwater

Storm Petrel
30mph south-westerly winds with gusts up to 60mph hit overnight and still around 25mph by the evening. At Sand Point birds started moving up channel around 6:30am lasting until mid-morning when a continuous movement throughout the rest of the day involved birds heading back down channel.
2 Arctic Skua
1 Pomarine Skua
1 Great Skua
8 Gannet
175 Manx Shearwater
79 Fulmar
2 Common Scoter
1 Swift
5 Storm Petrel
7 Kittiwake
30 House Martin
Also 1,000+ Lesser Black-back Gulls west all day. Presumably these are local movements.

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