Michael Frankis
conehead
Had a good seawatch this afternoon from St Mary's Island (Northumbs):
Red-throated Diver: 1 N
Sooty Shearwater: 2 N
Manx Shearwater: c.300 N
Balearic Shearwater: 1 N
Arctic Skua: 16 N 4 S
Great Skua: 12 N
Pomarine Skua: 2 ads N together - one with a super 'spoony' tail, the other with the tail tip broken off
Long-tailed Skua: 1 juv N
Roseate Tern: about 30+ hanging around, sitting on rocks and fishing offshore - almost constant 'chuwit' calls for the whole 4½ hours. Many more probables far offshore in big feeding flocks of terns.
Other supporting cast: Fulmar, Gannet, Cormorant, Wigeon, Teal, Common Scoter, Eider, Kittiwake, Sandwich Tern, Common Tern, Guillemot, Puffin
Also two birds which several people - including some very experienced birders - said were Little Auks. I thought they could have been, but wasn't 100% certain that they weren't just juvenile Puffins not yet fully grown (though fledged)
Michael
Red-throated Diver: 1 N
Sooty Shearwater: 2 N
Manx Shearwater: c.300 N
Balearic Shearwater: 1 N
Arctic Skua: 16 N 4 S
Great Skua: 12 N
Pomarine Skua: 2 ads N together - one with a super 'spoony' tail, the other with the tail tip broken off
Long-tailed Skua: 1 juv N
Roseate Tern: about 30+ hanging around, sitting on rocks and fishing offshore - almost constant 'chuwit' calls for the whole 4½ hours. Many more probables far offshore in big feeding flocks of terns.
Other supporting cast: Fulmar, Gannet, Cormorant, Wigeon, Teal, Common Scoter, Eider, Kittiwake, Sandwich Tern, Common Tern, Guillemot, Puffin
Also two birds which several people - including some very experienced birders - said were Little Auks. I thought they could have been, but wasn't 100% certain that they weren't just juvenile Puffins not yet fully grown (though fledged)
Michael