Steve Waite
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Three words to describe this morning; WET and STORM PETRELS!
The rain has obviously effected these Dancing Sea Fairies, and after hearing Ian M had seen a few from Beer I trotted off down to the Seaton Seafront. I immediatly picked up two, really REALLY close in. One was feeding around the closest black and yellow flag, and another came 'dancing' through my scope at half the distance! Best views I've ever had from here by a long shot. They ended up pairing up together and spent the rest of the time I was watching feeding around the flag. I then nipped up to Seaton Hole, and soon picked up another 3 Stormies from here (though these were at normal Stormie distance). In a break in the weather 2 Manxies, 2 Balearics (thanks Ian!) and several Gannets flew west too. I wish I stayed watching a little longer though as Ian M shortly afterwards had a small pale-phased Skua fly west past Beer, bummer!
A look up the estuary produced my first Whimbrel of the autumn, then Colyford Common gave 5+ Blackwits, 1 Dunlin and 6 Common Sands.
The rain has obviously effected these Dancing Sea Fairies, and after hearing Ian M had seen a few from Beer I trotted off down to the Seaton Seafront. I immediatly picked up two, really REALLY close in. One was feeding around the closest black and yellow flag, and another came 'dancing' through my scope at half the distance! Best views I've ever had from here by a long shot. They ended up pairing up together and spent the rest of the time I was watching feeding around the flag. I then nipped up to Seaton Hole, and soon picked up another 3 Stormies from here (though these were at normal Stormie distance). In a break in the weather 2 Manxies, 2 Balearics (thanks Ian!) and several Gannets flew west too. I wish I stayed watching a little longer though as Ian M shortly afterwards had a small pale-phased Skua fly west past Beer, bummer!
A look up the estuary produced my first Whimbrel of the autumn, then Colyford Common gave 5+ Blackwits, 1 Dunlin and 6 Common Sands.