deeestuary
Dee Estuary
Hi
I'm querying a record from 2009 which appears in the just published 2009 North-east Wales Bird Report - this is being done with the agreement of the NE Wales Bird Recorder and Bird Report Editor, Ian Spence.
We would like to know who recorded the 11,000 Manx Shearwaters off Point of Ayr, Flintshire, on 28th August 2009 as we think this is probably a record high count for Flintshire and would love to put a name to the record. There is also a possibility that it was a typo and really should be 1,100!!! The count came via BirdGuides as an anonymous record. Also reported on the same day were a pomarine skua, 6 Sooty Shearwaters, 2 Great Skuas, 18 Arctic Skuas and a Turtle Dove.
Although the weather that day was a strong westerly, and therefore good for a manxie passage, there is a question mark over the record as on that same day birders were sea-watching on Little Orme for several hours, morning and late afternoon, and they only saw two to three hundred Manx Shearwaters - and there were no other records that day from the north Irish Sea that we know about. That doesn't mean the POA count is impossible, but it would be nice just to have it confirmed.
Any comments from local birders would be welcome!
This is how it appears on BirdGuides:
23:10 28/08/09 Pomarine Skua Clwyd Point of Ayr
one flew past; also 6 Sooty Shearwater, 2 Great Skuas, 18 Arctic Skuas, 11,000 Manx Shearwater. Turtle Dove at end of Station Road near car park early evening
I'm querying a record from 2009 which appears in the just published 2009 North-east Wales Bird Report - this is being done with the agreement of the NE Wales Bird Recorder and Bird Report Editor, Ian Spence.
We would like to know who recorded the 11,000 Manx Shearwaters off Point of Ayr, Flintshire, on 28th August 2009 as we think this is probably a record high count for Flintshire and would love to put a name to the record. There is also a possibility that it was a typo and really should be 1,100!!! The count came via BirdGuides as an anonymous record. Also reported on the same day were a pomarine skua, 6 Sooty Shearwaters, 2 Great Skuas, 18 Arctic Skuas and a Turtle Dove.
Although the weather that day was a strong westerly, and therefore good for a manxie passage, there is a question mark over the record as on that same day birders were sea-watching on Little Orme for several hours, morning and late afternoon, and they only saw two to three hundred Manx Shearwaters - and there were no other records that day from the north Irish Sea that we know about. That doesn't mean the POA count is impossible, but it would be nice just to have it confirmed.
Any comments from local birders would be welcome!
This is how it appears on BirdGuides:
23:10 28/08/09 Pomarine Skua Clwyd Point of Ayr
one flew past; also 6 Sooty Shearwater, 2 Great Skuas, 18 Arctic Skuas, 11,000 Manx Shearwater. Turtle Dove at end of Station Road near car park early evening
