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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ta brandreth" data-source="post: 1911087" data-attributes="member: 31529">just back - from the site:23 - 26 Aug 2010 - Company of Whales, WDCS & Organisation Cetacea aboard Pride of Bilbao4 Fin Whales, 3 large rorquals (probably Fin Whales), 2 medium rorquals (possibly Sei / Bryde's types), 1 Minke Whale, 9 Sperm Whales, 5 Cuvier's Beaked Whales (plus one probable), 6 Long-finned Pilot Whales, 54 Bottle-nosed Dolphins, 387 Common Dolphins, 30 Striped Dolphins, 139 Unidentified Dolphins, 17 Ocean Sunfish, 15 Portuguese Man of War and lots of tuna. Bird highlights at sea included 15 Sabine's Gulls, 1 Grey Phalarope, 9 Sooty Shearwaters, 77 Manx Shearwaters, 24 Storm Petrels, 6 Great Skuas, 1 Arctic Skua, 11 Common Terns and 9 Black Terns. Migrants at sea or on the ship included Common sandpiper, Dunlin, Wheatear and a Turtle Dove. Our walk in Spain produced a diverse range of birds & butterflies including 70 Griffon Vultures, Honey Buzzard, Hobby, Peregrine, Wryneck, Red-backed Shrike, Tree Pipit, Sardinian Warbler, Zitting Cisticola, Cetti's Warbler, Melodious Warbler, Spotted Pied Flycatcher, Serin, Cirl Bunting and Black Redstart. 18 species of butterfly included Swallowtail, Scarce Swallowtail, Clouded Yellow, Cleopatra, Long-tailed Blue and Geranium Bronze. Hummingbird Hawkmoth & Wall Lizard was also recorded as was a probable Western Green Lizard.WOWbest yet...if Brydes whale gets accepted this will be unprecedented - our partys photos are being scrutinised as we speak for the diagnostic features of this Southern Ocean species...</blockquote>

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