That was a nice count of "commic" Terns. But all the ther species showed less numbers than yesterday.

A Marsh Harrier, an uncommon species in the headland, arrived during the afternoon:

2 Black-winged kites were found at first hour in the morning. One of them stayed in the area for three days. This is the first sighting of this species in the headland.

Other nice sightings of this day were:

2 Wilson’s Storm Petrels
4 Roseate Terns
1 White-Winged Tern
575 Bar Tailed Godwits
199 Cory’s Shearwaters
191 Northern Gannets
165 Black Terns
108 «Commic» Terns
101 Common Scoters
51 Knots
46 Dunlins
40 Manx Shearwaters
17 Grey Plovers
8 British Storm Petrels
7 Arctic Skuas
6 Great Skuas
3 Sooty Shearwaters
And lesser numbers of other species.

Birders at the headland: Antonio Sandoval Rey, Ricardo Hevia Barcón, Pablo Gutiérrez Varga and Alfonso Valderas  Farfante.


Try to find the White-Winged Tern at the head of this group of Black Terns (Footage by Antonio Sandoval):

The results of today’s count were:

1 Fea’s type Petrel quite close at 19,15 (local time)
1 Sabine’s Gull
2.198 Commic Terns (84% of the identified birds were Arctic)
540 Sandwhich Terns
355 Cory’s Shearwaters
325 Gannets (one of them the first juv. of the season)
130 Bar-Tailed Godwits
69 Little Terns
56 Manx Shearwaters
48 Whimbrels
44 Pomarine Skuas
6 Arctic Skuas
5 Long-Tailed Skuas
3 Great Skuas
17 Great Shearwaters
6 Balearic Shearwaters
1 Sooty Shearwater
31 Common Scoter
2 Black Terns
1 Kittiwake flying eastwards
1 Marsh Harrier

Observers: Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Sandoval Rey, Alfonso Valderas, Borja Heredia.


Little Terns from the headland today (footage by Antonio Sandoval)

...and a group of "commic" Terns (footage by Antonio Sandoval):

The results of today’s count were:

2 Fulmars
3,103 Commic Terns (94,5% of the identified birds Arctic Terns)
202 Sandwhich Terns
603 Cory’s Shearwaters
563 Gannets (one of them the first juv. of the season)
70 Bar-Tailed Godwits
14 Little Terns
46 Manx Shearwaters
58 Whimbrels
11 Pomarine Skuas
8 Arctic Skuas
4 Long-Tailed Skuas
11 Great Skuas
16 Great Shearwaters
17 Balearic Shearwaters
5 Sooty Shearwaters
2 Sabine's Gulls
106 Common Scoters
31 Black Terns

Also the first migrant Northern Wheateater of the season (a juv.) and several pods of C. Dolphins.

Observers: Antonio Sandoval Rey, Ricardo Hevia, Pablo Gutiérrez, Antonio Gutiérrez.

30 Pomarine skuas (including one group of 10 inds.) were a nice numer today during the latre afternoon and evening count. Also 11 Great shearwaters, 299 Cory's, 3 Arctic Skuas, 1 Bonxie, 24 "Commic" terns, 11 Sandwhich Terns and other birds.

Observer: Alfonso Valderas Farfante

Not much passage during these days. On 4th there were nice numbers of Cory's (615 counted in the evening) and a few Great Shearwaters, and on 5th 10 Pomarine Skuas.

Observers: Alfonso Valderas, Antonio Martínez Pernas, Ricardo Hevia.

A Fulmar on jul 31th was the best sight of the weekend. The NE winds kept most birds away from the headland. Anyway, we managed to get a few "Commic" Terns on Sun. 2nd evening: 58 during 2,15 hs, together with 2 Little terns (the first of the year) and 20 Black-Tailed Godwits, as well as other species.

Observers: Antonio Sandoval Rey (all days), Alfonso Valderas (Aug 2nd9 and Ricardo hevia (Aug 2nd).

This is a short footage of the Fulmar of Jul. 31th (Antonio Sandoval):