Observer: Antonio Sandoval Rey
The seawatching season started this year with an evening 2-hs count with WNW wind:
2 Pomarine Skuas - S. pomarinus
2 Great Skuas - S. skua
102 Cory's Shearwaters - C. diomedea
3 Balearic Shearwaters - P. mauretanicus
1 Manx Shearwater - P. puffinus
91 Northern Gannets - M. bassanus
The weather was autumn-like. Here they say it's "julyember":
The seawatching season started this year with an evening 2-hs count with WNW wind:
2 Pomarine Skuas - S. pomarinus
2 Great Skuas - S. skua
102 Cory's Shearwaters - C. diomedea
3 Balearic Shearwaters - P. mauretanicus
1 Manx Shearwater - P. puffinus
91 Northern Gannets - M. bassanus
The weather was autumn-like. Here they say it's "julyember":
Antonio Sandoval Rey
The following day, July 2, the weather improved (still NW)...
Antonio Sandoval Rey
...and so did the seabird passage, during the 5 h count (morning, afternoon and evening):
3 Great Shearwaters - P. gravis
1,801 Cory's Shearwaters - C. diomedea
2 Sooty Shearwaters - P. griseus
3 Manx Shearwaters - P. puffinus
4 Balearic Shearwaters - P. mauretanicus
2 Pomarine Skuas - S. pomarinus
2 Great Skuas - S. skua
1 Kittiwake - R. tridactyla
2 Mediterranean Gulls - L. melanocephalus
Also pods of Bottlenose and Common Dolphins, and Harbour Porpoises.
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July 3 was a bit boring, as the wind changed to NE.
There was not much to count. A British Storm Petrel and a few Sandwhich Terns flying eastwards, and a soft passage of c. 200 Cory's Shearwaters / h in the morning, but very few later. Instead, it was a good chance to photograph land birds such as this Cirl Bunting:
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