Calm uncloudy days with almost no wind proved to be quite good in this time of the year for several species. On nov 13, 8,154 Gannets, 673 Sooty Shearwaters and 92 Pomarine Skuas, as well as several other species, offered very nice views.

Nov 14 was even better, (with most of the passage during the evening:

1,328 Great Shearwaters
1,225 Sooty Shearwaters
11,048 Gannets
319 Mediterranean Gulls 682 Kittiwakes
293 Puffins
170 Razorbills
1 Dovekie
1 Grey Phalarope
88 Great Skuas
Etc...

Nov 15 also brought good numbers, for example 237 Balearic Shearwaters, but Great and Sooty shearwaters decided not to move by. Only a few were counted. There was also a tiny movement of Grey Plover and increasing groups of Razorbills.

Observers: Antonio Sandoval Rey, Ricardo Hevi Barcón, Antonio Martínez Pernas

​ We obtained some footages in order to help you to imagine the seabird movement these days. Enjoy them!

​As soon as the wind changed seabirds started to move close to the headland some of them in amazing numbers. Gannets, for instance, kept a passage of more than 3,000/h all during all the day on nov 9th, meaning that that day close to 30.000 of them flew by.

The following two days were also very good, with c. 2,000/h and 1,200/h.

Other nice numbers were:

- Over 500/h Sooty Shearwaters on nov 10th.
- 138 Pomarine Skuas, 13 Arctic Skuas, 2 Long-tailed Skuas and 103 Bonxies during the three days (in 7,30 hs of census).
- 423 Kittiwakes on nov 11th. The best pasage up to now this year.

​ Observers: Ricardo Hevia Barcón and Antonio Martínez Pernas.

Calm days at the headland, with East winds a Larks entering from the sea. Not many birds over the waves, but movement of Gannets kept increasing, reaching over 1.000/h. There were also nice numbers of Mediterranean Gulls, with up to 30/h. Other seabirds on the move were Sooties, Balearics, Great Skuas, a few Kittiwakes and Razorbills, some Puffins and Gillemots...

​ Almost all of the Cory's have already abandoned this area. There are only a few young birds left. A group of 16 were feeding close to the fishing boats on Nov. 1st and 2nd. These are some of them:

​The night of Nov 1st, one young Cory's fell on one of the tables of a cafetería at Porto de Bares (attracted to the lights), and was brought to Antonio Sandoval's home. The following day it was feeded and ringed by the Galician expert in the species, Álbaro Barros (Vigo University) and released at sea by Pablo, a local fisherman and a good friend.

​Unfortunately, another young was found close to the beach eated by a predator:

Most surely these birds belong to yhe tiny colony at Coelleira island, very close to Bares, and the most northerly breeding place known for Cory's in the world.

Observers: Antonio Sandoval Rey, Álvaro Barros López.