Aug 7: Fea’s type Petrel & "Commic" Tern Galore

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)

Charrancitos en Estaca de Bares, 7 ag 2015 from Antonio Sandoval Rey on Vimeo.

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

Grupo de charranes "comic" en Estaca de Bares, 7 ag 2015 from Antonio Sandoval Rey on Vimeo.