The 9 hs count from the headland during these two days produced 10.933 Gannets, 969 Sooty Shearwaters and 108 Great Shearwaters, as well as 1 Sabine´s Gull and a few of all the most common seabirds here.

A Short-eared owl arrived from the sea on 25th, as well as Starlings, Meadow Pipits, Redwings and Skylarks. An Eurasian reed warbler originally ringed in the Netherlands was captured in the ringing nets at the reedbed close to the observatory.

A Common minke whale was watched close to the headland during the afternoon of 24th.

​Observers: Antonio Sandoval Rey, Ricardo Hevia Barcón, Pablo Pita.

The Stock Dove (or maybe another one) was still at the headland, as well as the two Godcrests. Land migrants kept arriving during the las hours, including at least Meadow Pipits, Robins, Skylarks, White Wagtails, Black Redstarts, Coal Tits, Blue Tits, Common Chiffchaffs, European Pied Flycatchers, Spotted Flycatcher, Northern Wheatears, Eurasian Reed Warblers and the first groups of Redwings and Fieldfares of the season. A friend from France, Jean Pierre Saint-Andreux, watched early in the morning a Lesser Whitethroat close to the reedbed.

​At sea things were quite calm, with a constant passage of Gannets and a few Kittiwakes and Razorbills but not much more, excepto on 18th, when up to 125 Balearic Shearwaters kept most of the morning feeding quite close to te headland in company of Gannets, a few Cory's and 2 Sooties.

​Observer: Antonio Sandoval Rey

Very good numbers of migrants during these days at the headland, with a great fall of Meadow Pipits, Robins (they were everywhere) and Skylarks, as well as groups of Yellow Wagtail, Black Redstart, Coal Tit and Blue Tit, lots of Common Chiffchaffs, a few Willow Warblers and European Pied Flycatchers, one Spotted Flycatcher, some Northern Wheatears and Song Thrushes...

The main sightings were a Snow Bunting (first for the season at Galicia) at the beach, a Stock Dove and 2 Goldcrests on 12th.

At sea there were thousands o Gannets on the move: 9.471 were counted in 8,25 hs. Also 653 Balearics, 62 Bonxies and 156 Mediterranean Gulls. But only 13 Actic and 17 Pomarine Skuas.

By the way, have you ever seen a bird of this kind?

The local male Peregrine loves to watch the Headland from there.

This last picture shows our Cantabrian friends Jesús Menéndez and Toño Lastra, a good company during the weekend!

Observers: Antonio Sandoval, Jesús Menéndez, Toño Lastra, Pablo Gutiérrez, Antonio Gutiérrez, Lucas Gutiérrez, Víctor Rivera, Antonio Martínez Pernas, Ricardo Hevia

Today's 5,30 hs evening count with WNW winds produced some very good numbers:

7,328 Sooties
7,106 Gannets
2,625 Cory's
2 Great Shearwaters
368 Manxies
86 Balearics
60 Pomarine Skuas
15 Arctic Skuas
101 Great Skuas
Etc, included the first 3 razorbills of the season. 

Observers: Antonio Martínez Pernas, Ricardo Hevia Barcón, Javier Cantil and Nick Whitehouse

Sergio Paris has sent to this web the photograph of the Merlin (first for the season) found by himself and Isabel García-Rodeja close to the Observatory on oct. 3. Thanks a lot!

Not much seabird passage during these days due to the prevailing NE winds. Instead, we had some nice numbers of migrants, including:

- 2 Lapland Buntings - oct 1 (found by Ricardo Hevia)
- 2 Yellow-browed Warblers - oct 3 (found by Ricardo Hevia)
- 1 Lesser Witethroad - oct 5 (found by Antonio Martínez Pernas)

A Common Gull to the East on oct 6 was the first of the season here. 

Winds changed on oct 6th, bringing a nice passage of Great Shearwaters (187 in 3,30 h), as well as 1363 Cory's, 15 Pomarines, 1 Sabine's Gull and 5 Grey Phalaropes.

Observers: Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Martínez Pernas, Antonio Sandoval, Pablo Gutiérrez, Antonio Gutiérrez, Sergio París, Isabel García-Rodeja, Miguel Maestro, and participants in the Bird's Day organized by Sociedade Galega de Ornitoloxía (www.sgosgo.org).