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Aug 20: still several Great Shearwaters

8/21/2013

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The passage of seabirds was much less numerous than yesterday due to the ENE wind, but we still obtained some good numbers of Great Shearwaters in the 6,15 hs count: 65 birds. Some of the other species watched were Grey Phalarope (22), LT Skua (1), Pomarine (1), Black Tern (16), Sooty Shearwater (9) and Cory’s (60/h). A close pod of Bottlenose Dolphins was a nice sight in the early morning.


Observers: Maarten Plaateuw, Antonio Sandoval, Alfonso Valderas.

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Aug 18: Sabine’s, Phalaropes, LT Skuas...

8/20/2013

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SW to NW wind. Today’s 7 hs count produced 1 Sabine’s Gull, 2 LT Skua, 16 Grey Phalaropes, 18 Poms, 9 Arctic Skua, 20 Bonxies, 15 Common Scoters, only 2 Black Terns, 237 «Commic» Terns, 18 Sandwich Terns, 13 Great Shearwaters, 289 Manxies, 7 Balearics, 382 Cory’s, 147 Whimbrels, 4 Storm Petrels... Today the Peregrine captured an unidentified Tern.

Observers: Andres Bermejo, Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Martínez Pernas, Martin Plaateuw, Cosme Damian Romay Cousido, Antonio Sandoval, Alfonso Valderas and Oscar Llama.
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Aug 17: more Great Shearwaters

8/20/2013

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SW wind. Today’s 7 hs count produced 46 Great Shearwaters, 22 Poms, 12 Arctic Skua, 23 Bonxies, 12 Common Scoters, 3 Black Terns, 63 «Commic» Terns, 43 Sandwich Terns, 5 Little Terns, 5 Shellducks, 95 Manxies, 24 Balearics, 454 Cory’s... 

Observers: Antonio Martínez Pernas, Antonio Sandoval, Alfonso Valderas and Oscar Llama.
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Aug 16: the wind finally changes

8/20/2013

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NW wind and huge increase of numbers. Today’s 7,5 hs count produced 41 Poms, 16 Arctic Skua, 26 Bonxies (and also 34 moving eastwards, most of them in the very calm early morning), 65 Common Scoters, 9 Black Terns, 176 «Commic» Terns, 139 Sandwich Terns, 5 Little Terns... Although we watched 24 Great Shearwaters, other Shearwater numbers were still not high: 9 Manxies, 5 Balearics, 297 Cory’s. Other nice species to watch were 1 LT Skua and 1 Northern Fulmar. Today the Peregrine captured a Sandwich Tern.

Observers: Antonio Martínez Pernas, Antonio Sandoval, Alfonso Valderas and Oscar Llama.
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Aug 15: A Peregrine captures a Black Tern

8/20/2013

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One more day with NE wind. Numbers were stilll low in the 3,5 hs count, including 2 Poms, 2 Arctic Skua, 7 Bonxies, 7 Manxies, 18 Cory’s, 47 «Commic» Terns, 3 Sandwich Terns, 11 Whimbrels or 11 Black Terns. One of the Black Terns was captured by one of the local Peregrines.

Observers: Antonio Sandoval and Oscar Llama
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Aug 14: 3 Grey Phalaropes

8/20/2013

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Still NE wind. Today’s 3,5 hs count produced 3 Grey Phalaropes and very low numbers of other species: 14 Manxies, 3 Balearics, 9 Cory’s, 6 Common Scoters, 2 Black Terns, 2 «Commic» Terns, 7 Sandwich Terns, only 1 Arctic Skua, 5 Bonxies... No Poms. A nice species to watch in this weather was a Greater Shearwater.

Observers: Antonio Martínez Pernas, Antonio Sandoval and Alfonso Valderas
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Aug 13: Fulmar and some Manxies

8/16/2013

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A fulmar flying high in the arms of the NE wind was the best sightbof the day. The morning, afternoon and evening counts (5,30 hs) produced 51 Manxies (most of them in the last hour), 2 Sooties, 21 Cory’s, 40 Common Scoters, 5 Black Terns, 23 «Commic» Terns, 13 Sandwich Terns, 2 Poms, 3. Arctic Skuas and 13 Bonxies, as well as 156 Gannets.

Observers: Antonio Sandoval and Alfonso Valderas

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Aug 12: NE wind means poor passage of birds

8/16/2013

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Today’s 3,30 hs count only birds were 5 Bonxies, 1 Arctic Skua, 6 Manx Shearwaters and a few Gannets and Cory’s...


Observers: Antonio Sandoval and Alfonso Valderas

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Aug 11: LTSkua in the NE wind

8/16/2013

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Although the NE wind kept blowing with force all through the day, Early in the morning an inmature LT Skua moved west. Other species watched were Bonxie, Pomarine, Actic Skua, Sandwich Tern, Common Scoter, Manx Shearwater and Gannet, all of them in quite low numbers.

Observer: Antonio Sandoval

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Aug 10: 1 Sabine's

8/10/2013

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The 3-hours evening count produced 1 Sabine's Gull, 2 Great Shearwaters, 12 Bonxies, 2 Arctic Terns and 1 Pom, as well as 2 Black Terns and 1 Grey Phalarope. Not many birds today due to the NE wind, that is expected to be blowing for at least a week.


Observers: Antonio Sandoval, Antonio Salazar, Pablo Lado

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

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