Helsinki Birder
Stealth Birder
2 balearics and 4 sooty shearwaters off galley yesterday evening. As well as a few cetaceans.
http://www.surfbirds.com/blog/colinb
Owen
http://www.surfbirds.com/blog/colinb
Owen
18 - 21 July 2008 - Company of Whales and Organisation Cetacea aboard Pride of Bilbao
A great total of 528 animals included 1 immature male / female Killer Whale, 15 Fin Whales, 32 unidentified large rorquals, 14 Pilot Whales, 17 Bottlenose Dolphins, 191 Common Dolphins. 258 Striped Dolphins, a few Tuna sp and 11 Ocean Sunfish. Seabirds included 6 Cory's Shearwaters, 1 Great Skua, 5 Manx Shearwaters, 4 Storm Petrels, 21 Fulmars and 18 Kittiwakes. In Spain, highlights included 2 Common Buzzards, 1 Peregrine, 2 Garden Warblers, 2 Sardinian Warblers, 2 Zitting Cisticolas, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, Melodious Warbler, 5 Serins and a Cirl Bunting. Again, very few butterflies were on the wing but we recorded Holly Blue, Wall Brown and Speckled Wood. Other wildlife included a Hummingbird Hawk Moth.
A sightings map of the cetaceans is on our latest news page at:
http://www.companyofwhales.co.uk/html/news/news_fr.htm
Cheers
Hugh
News just e mailed in from our guides in Portsmouth...
21 - 24 July 2008 - Company of Whales and Organisation Cetacea aboard Pride of Bilbao
8 Fin Whales, 30 unidentified large rorquals, 1 Sperm Whale, 170 Bottlenose Dolphins, 72 Common Dolphins. 116 Striped Dolphins, 2 Harbour Porpoise, a few Tuna sp and 6 Ocean Sunfish. Seabirds included superb views of 1 Little Shearwater, 11 Cory's Shearwaters, 2 Manx Shearwaters, 1 Great Skua, 4 Storm Petrels, 13 Fulmars, 2 Kittiwakes and 8 'commic' terns. Migrants from the ship included 1 Whimbrel and 9 Swifts heading south. In Spain, highlights included 2 Black Kites, 2 Common Buzzards, 1 Black Redstart, 1 Blackcap, 2 Sardinian Warblers, 1 Zitting Cisticolas, 1 Grasshopper Warbler, Melodious Warbler and 2 Serins. Fourteen species of butterfly included Clouded Yellow, Cleopatra, Adonis Blue, Holly Blue and Marbled White. Also Jersey Tiger Moth, Hummingbird Hawkmoth and 5-spot Burnet.
A sightings map of the cetaceans will be on our latest news page later tonight at:
http://www.companyofwhales.co.uk/html/news/news_fr.htm
Cheers
Hugh
500+ Cory's and 4 greats off The Lizard up to 15.00hrs today. Not so many at PG, just 7 Corys and 1 great up to midday. The weather is very s*** down here today!
is that kind of number of cory's very unusual or does it happen for a few days each year?