One of the groups of Pomarine Skuas of sept 25th, photographed by Antonio Martínez Pernas:

Another great day of Skuas at Estaca de Bares, with 216 Pomarines, most of them during the last 2 hours before sunset. Also 5 Long Tailed, 66 Arctic and 126 Great Skuas. Tern numbers were also good, with 463 Sandwich, 157 "commic" and 5 Roseate. Other interesting birds watched were 1 Sabine's Gull in company of 2 Kittiwakes and 1 Little Tern.

Sept 26th was not as good at sea, but very nice in the headland, due to a great fall of migrants, mostly in the hights of the area, were more than 100 Whinchats were counted in a short walk.

Birders at the Observatory: Ricardo Hevia and Antonio Martínez Pernas

Sept 17th was a bit quiet, with just 24 Arctic Skuas, 5 Frey Phalaropes and 114 Sandwich Terns as the main sightings. 

Sept 18th was much better in terms of Terns: 840 Sandwich. And for Great Skuas: 130. Yesterday and today Manx Shearwater numbers were low, with just a few hundreds. 

Sept 19th 409 Common Scoters were also counted, as well as 51 Arctic Skuas and 6 Sabine's Gulls.

Sept 20th produced quite a lot of different species, including 2 Leach's, 4 Long Tailes Skuas, 827 Common Scoters, 61 Arctic Skuas and 117 Great Skuas. 67 Little terns was also a very good number. And 2 Garganeys, a duck with very few sightings in Galicia in autumn.

Sept 21th was not as good due to the rain. Anyway 16 Arctic Skuas kept moving west.

Sept 22th the evening count was again not good. But the morning was not bad! We are still waiting for the numbers of the birder at the headland during those hours, but a Fulmar was seen, as well as a few Great Shearwaters. A Long Eared Owl was seen at night over the headland road.

Sept 23th was nice for passerines, with all the common transaharian migrants seen, as well as 2 Purple Herons. At sea there was not much movement. 16 Pomarines, 14 Arctic Skuas, 1 Sabine's, 3 Great Shearwaters or 100 Balearic Shearwaters were the most interesting numbers.

Sept 24th was again goof for Balearics, as well as not bad for Skuas: 10 Pomarines, 18 Arctic, 27 Great, 1 Long tailed. All of them in the morning, before the rain.

Birders at the headland during the week: Antonio Sandoval Rey, Jesús Menéndez, Toño Lastra, Mark Hollingworth, Chris Phillpot, Jan Södersved, Marku Mikkola-Ross and Pekka Nikander, Petro Pynnonen & 6 more Finnish birders, Jorge Campos, Juan Hermida.

Quite a lot of good sightings again today:

6 Fulmars
c.17.600 Manx Shearwaters
36 Balearic Shearwaters
664 Sooty Shearwaters
26 Great Shearwaters
360 Pomarine Skuas
247 Arctic Skuas
119 Long Tailed Skuas
175 Great Skuas
​9 Sabine's Gulls
472 Sandwich Terns
550 Commic Terns
6 Little Terns
664 Common Scoters
3 European Storm-Petrels
1 Wilson's Storm-Petrel
4 Leach's Storm-Petrels
2 Kittiwakes
1 Little Gull
27 Grey Phalaropes

Observers: Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Martínez Pernas, Pablo Pita, Luis Gude, Dani, Mark Hollingworth, David Taylor, Ludovic Scalabre, Jan Söversved, Marku Mikkola-Ross, Pekka Nikander, Paul Gnodde.

2,330 Manx Shearwatersin just 2,30 hs this morning. Also 56 Great Skuas, 62 Sooties, 56 Arctic Skuas, 62 British Storm Petrels, 3 Wilson's Storm Petrels, 167 Sandwich Terns...

Observers: Antonio Sandoval, Toño Salazar, Mark Hollingworth, David Taylor.

Mark Hollingworth, David Taylor at the Observatory (Antonio Sandoval):​

Huge passage of seabirds on Sept 9th:
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C. 60.000 Manx Shearwaters
1 Barolo Shearwater
1 Fea's type Petrel (4th this year)
141 Roseate Terns
2 Wilson's Storm Petrels
6 Sabine's Gulls
264 Pomarine Skuas
227 Arctic Skuas
243 Great Skuas
67 Long Tailed Skuas
1511 "Commic" Terns
712 Sandwich Terns
25 G. Phalaropes
27 Great Shearwaters
751 Sooty Shearwaters
1 Fulmar (9th of the year)
ETC.
Observers: Dani Monteagudo, Carla Soaje, Pablo y Antonio Gutiérrez, David Martínez, Ricardo Hevia, Pablo Pita y Antonio Sandoval, Mark Hollingworth, David Taylor.
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Counting Seabirds from the Observatory (photo by David Martinez):

Great shots of Pomarine Skuas taken from the headland by our team member Antonio Martínez Pernas on Aug 18th, when 146 Poms were counted, most of them in nice close groups flying quite close:

SEPT 3th
SW Wind: 3 Arctic Skuas, 5 Bonxies... Instead, 23 Minke Whales and 2 Fin Whales, and a pod of Pilot Whales. (Obs: Antonio Sandoval)

SEPT 4th:
​118 Sooty Shearwaters in 6 hs. Also 36 Pomarines, 102 Arctic Skuas, 15 Long Tailed Skuas, 110 Bonxies, 13 Sabine's Gulls, 16 Great Shearwaters, 3 Roseate Terns... (Obs: Antonio Martínez Pernas, Ricardo Hevia, Javier Cantil)

SEPT 5th:
389 Sooty Shearwaters in 4 hs. Also 17 Pomarines, 59 Arctic Skuas, 9 Long Tailed Skuas, 66 Bonxies... (Obs: Antonio Martínez Pernas, Ricardo Hevia)

SEPT 6th:
NE Winds mean poor numbers: 3 Pomarines, 16 Arctic Skuas, 30 Bonxies... (Obs: Ricardo Hevia)

SEPT 7th: 
1 Fea's Type Petrel. Also 12 Pomarines, 32 Arctic Skuas, 6 Long Tailed Skuas, 12 Bonxies... (Obs: Ricardo Hevia)

SEPT 8th:
2,339 Manx Shearwaters in 6 hs. Also 32 Arctic Skuas... (Obs: Antonio Martínez Pernas, Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Sandoval)

Estaca de Bares Lighthouse from the road (Antonio Sandoval):