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July 31: First Sabine’s and 12 Long-Tailed Skuas

7/31/2013

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Today’s evening count produced 20 Great Shearwaters and close to 200 Cory’s/hour, as well as 12 Long-Tailed Skuas and the first Sabine’s Gull of the year. Also 23 Poms, 7 Arctic Skuas, 4 Sooties… And the first juvenile Northern Gannet.

Observers: Antonio Martínez Pernas and Ricardo Hevia

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July 30: 6 Great Shearwaters and 1116 Cory’s

7/30/2013

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This evening’s 5 hours count produced a total of 6 Great Shearwaters and 116 Cory’s, as well as 27 Pomarines, 7 Bonxies, 1 Long-Tailed and 2 Arctic Skuas… And several other species!

Observers: Antonio Martínez Pernas and Ricardo Hevia

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July 29: Balearics on the move

7/29/2013

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A total of 125 Balearics were counted during the 4 - hours evening census. The wind blowed from WSW. Only 3 Bonxies and 2 Poms were watched, while the Cory’s passage seems to be increasing.

Observers: Antonio Martínez Pernas and Ricardo Hevia

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July 28: Start of the "Commic" Tern passage

7/28/2013

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Still more SW winds, so not many birds on the move, with only a few Dunlin flocks in the morning. Instead the afternoon seawatch was great, with a constant passage of distant «Commic» Tern flocks totalling 134 birds in 1,45 hs. Unfortunatly it started raining so we had to stop. Some other numbers of today’s 5 hs count were 12 Little Terns, 65 Whimbrels, 2 Great Shearwaters (very close!), 20 Sandwichs, 2 poms, 1 Arctic and 8 Bonxies.

Observers: Pablo Gutiérrez, Antonio Gutiérrez and Antonio Sandoval
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July 27: Wader flocks westwards

7/28/2013

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It kept blowing from SW, so the seabird passage wasn’t as good as yesterday. Instead, we had several wader flocks moving west close to the waves, most of them Dunlins and Whimbrels. Only 3 Pomarines and 7 Bonxies in 7,15 hs. There was a Hobby in the headland, an uncommon species here.

Observers: Ricardo Hevia, and Antonio Sandoval
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July 26: Four more Long-Tailed Skuas

7/27/2013

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West winds provided 4 more LT Skuas today during the 6 hours count. Other Skuas counted were 29 Pomarines, 4 Arctic and 9  Bonxies. From early morning to late evening there was an almost continuous passage of close to 140 Cory’s/h. Other Shearwater numbers were 2 Sooties, 12 Manx, 1 Great Shearwaters and 41 Balearics. We also counted 63 Whimbrels, as well as a few Bar Tailed and Black Tailed Godwits, 10 Sandwich Terns, 29 Common Scoters, 676 Gannets and 2 Mediterranean Gulls.

Observers: Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Martínez Pernas and Antonio Sandoval
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July 25: 7 Long-Tailed Skuas! And 51 Poms!

7/25/2013

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The W wind announced a nice passage, but we didn't expect to watch as many as 7 LT Skuas, all of them adult birds. The other great count was 51 Pomarines, quite a lot for this time of the year. We counted for 8 hours, obtaining other nice numbers such as 1 Great Shearwater, 281 Cory's, 4 Arctic Skuas, 13 Great Skuas, 22 Sandwich and 6 «Commic» Terns, 27 Whimbrels, an unseasonal Kittiwake and the first Lttle Tern of the year. 

At 12:16 (local hour) a Sei Whale appeared briefly between the waves, and there was a migrant adult Cuckoo in the headland.

Observers: Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Martínez Pernas, Pablo Gutiérrez, Antonio Gutiérrez and Antonio Sandoval

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July 24: A few more Cory’s

7/24/2013

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SW wind. 35,5 Cory’s/h was a nice passage for the 6 hours count. 10 Balearics and 9 Manx were also on the move, as well as 2 Pomarine and 3 Great Skuas, 7 Sandwich Terns, 628 Northern Gannets and 67 Common Scoters. Huge numbers of Common Dolphins (more than 500) filled the sea with their activity.

Observers: Antonio Sandoval
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July 21: Six Pied Avocets and first Arctic Skua

7/21/2013

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It is not a common species from the headland, so it was great to watch and photograph this flock. In 7,15 hs count we counted 16 Grreat Skuas, 4 Pomarines and 1 Arctic Skua (the first of the year), 104 Common Scoters, 9 Whimbrels and still very few Shearwaters. The wind blew from SW. Northern Gannets passage was close to 100 birds/h.

Observers: Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Martínez Pernas, David Martínez Lago, Antonio Sandoval, Jesús Menéndez, Jose Portillo, Roberto Ortiz and Germán Ibarra.
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The six Pied Avocets (Antonio Martínez Pernas)
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July 20: First Fea's Petrel of the year!

7/20/2013

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A Fea's Petrel slowly flying westwards at 16:30 (local hour) was the great news of the 6 hours count. Other nice species were 1 Great Shearwater and 12 Great Skuas, as well as 1 Pomarine, 2 «Commic» Terns and 1 Sandwich Tern. The wind blew fron SW in the morning and NW in the afternoon and evening. There were a couple of pods of Common Dolphins in the area, one of them numbering more than 75 individuals.

Observers: Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Martínez Pernas and Antonio Sandoval
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This Bonxie seemed to be quite curious about us! (Antonio Martínez Pernas)
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    The main birders at Estaca de Bares cape, in alphabetical order:

    - Ricardo Hevia Barcón
    - Pablo Gutiérrez Varga
    - Daniel López Velasco
    - David Martínez Lago
    - Antonio Martínez Pernas
    - Pablo Pita Criado
    - Antonio Sandoval Rey
    - Alfonso Valderas Farfante

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