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August seawatching Estaca: news at Twitter

8/4/2018

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During August please check @ASandovalRey at Twitter 
for daily Birding News from Estaca de Bares.

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July 27-30th: LT. Skuas, Poms & G. Shearwaters

7/30/2018

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Pomarine Skua on 28th (Antonio Sandoval)
July 27th - W winds brought an Arctic Skua, a few Whimbrels and Black Tailed Godwits. Not much more.

July 28th - Passaged started to improve with NWN winds. In 6,15 hs: 54 Great Shearwaters, 43 Manx Shearwaters, 44 Balearic Shearwaters, 504 Cory's Shearwaters, 11 Pomarine Skuas, the FIRST Long Tailed Skua of the season, 1 Arctic Skua, 13 Great Skuas, but just 2 Sandwich Terns and 2 "comic" Terns.

July 29th - A few Great Shearwaters and Manx Shearwaters in the morning, as well as 10 Sandwich Terns, 1 Pomarine and 1 Arctic Skuas. Strong SW wind.

July 30Th - WNW winds for a very nice afternoon and evening count:
    1  Long Tailed Skua
    25 Pomarine Skuas
    8 Arctic Skuas
    5 Great Skuas
    57 Great Shearwaters
    276 Cory's Shearwaters
    44 Manx Shearwaters
    43 Balearic Shearwaters
    1 Sooty Shearwater
    1 Sandwich Tern
    5  Black Tailed Godwits

Observers: Antonio Sandoval Rey, Ricardo Hevia Barcón, Antonio Martínez Pernas, David Martínez Lago, Isabel García-Rodeja, Pau Lucio.

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July 13th-22th: lots of Balearic Shearwaters

7/26/2018

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6 seawatching days in this period, with only a few nice observations:

- Most interesting, huge numers of Balearic Shearwater on 20th & 21th, with rafts of up to 184 birds, and local movements of up to 120/h in the mornings.
- First Arctic Skua on 19th.
- First Pomarine Skua, a 2cy, on 20th.
- First Flock of Arctic Terns on 21th.
- Great Shearwaters on 20th and 21th.
- First flocks of Whimbrel and Black Tailed Godwit.
- Harbour Porpoises, Common Dolphins and Bottleneck Dolphins.

Observers: Antonio Sandoval Rey, Ricardo Hevia Barcón
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Balearic Shearwaters (Antonio Sandoval)
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Part of a raft of Balearic Shearwaters (Antonio Sandoval)
Waterspout watched july 21th from the Bird Observatory (Antonio Sandoval):
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6th-8th july 2018: start of the seawatching season

7/12/2018

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First Balearic Shearwater juveniles, nice passage of Northern Gannets (most of them of 2nd-3rd calendar year), a few groups of Mediterranean Gulls and Common Scoters, and a strong NE wind were the main features of the first seawatching weekend of the season at Estaca de Bares. Up to 45 Cory's Shearwaters standed together at sea in the evenings. Only 7 Great Skuas were watched.
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Notice the piece of net hanging from the beak of the fisrt Gannet. (Photo: Antonio Sandoval).
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Sept 30th, Oct 1st: Good numbers of Sooties

10/1/2017

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Sept 30th: It seems Sooty Shearwaters finally decided to fly south from the Gulf of Biscay. These are some numbers of today:

1,247 Sooty Shearwaters
10,522 Northern Gannets
1,247 Manx Shearwaters
34 Pomarine Skuas
18 Arctic Skuas
42 Great Skuas
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​The day before Antonio Martinez Pernas found this  Greater short-toed Lark  (first sighting in the area) at the headland:

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Photo: Antonio Sandoval
Greater short-toed Lark Oct 1st started raining but was not so bad, with a nice morning pasage, including:
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1,060 Sooty Shearwaters
5,518 Northern Gannets
486 Manx Shearwaters
8 Pomarine Skuas
11 Arctic Skuas
11 Great Skuas
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Birders at the Headland: Antonio Sandoval Rey, Ricardo Hevia Barcón

Here's a tiny video of the seabird passage, and
Greater short-toed Lark:
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Estaca 30 sept a 1 oct 2017 from Antonio Sandoval Rey on Vimeo.

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Sept 25th: 216 Pomarines, 5 Roseate Terns...

9/27/2017

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One of the groups of Pomarine Skuas of sept 25th, photographed by Antonio Martínez Pernas:
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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
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Sept. 17th-24th: a nice seawatching week!

9/25/2017

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Jesus Menendez, Jan Södersved, Marku Mikkola-Ross and Pekka Nikander at the Observatory (Antonio Sandoval).

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.
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Sept 16th: 1,296 Sandwich Terns, 273 Arctic Skuas

9/17/2017

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Winds kept calming down through the day:

​3 Fulmars 

2074 Manx Shearwaters
22 Balearic Shearwaters
29 Sooty Shearwaters
2 Pomarine Skuas
273 Arctic Skuas
2 Long Tailed Skuas
223 Great Skuas
1296 Sandwich Terns
808 Commic Terns
28 Little Terns
​1 Roseate Tern
825 Common Scoters
3 European Storm-Petrel
1 Wilson's Storm-Petrel
4 Grey Phalaropes
5 Sabine's Gulls
ETC

Observers: Antonio Sandoval, Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Gutiérrez, Pablo Gutiérrez, Jesús Menéndez, Toño Lastra, Colón, David Calleja, Javier Cantil, Mark Hollingworth, David Taylor, Jan Söversved, Marku Mikkola-Ross, Pekka Nikander.
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Sept 15th: 2,130 Sandwich Terns

9/17/2017

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looking for Leachs's from the observatory (Antonio Sandoval)
As the westerlies kept blowing, more and more great numbers of many species:

9 Fulmars (record number at Estaca de Bares)

7042 Manx Shearwaters
4 Balearic Shearwaters
257 Sooty Shearwaters
32 Great Shearwaters
8 Pomarine Skuas
289 Arctic Skuas
13 Long Tailed Skuas
191 Great Skuas
2130 Sandwich Terns
1107 Commic Terns
​7 Roseate Terns
17 Little Terns
730 Common Scoters
1 European Storm-Petrel
1 Wilson's Storm-Petrel
14 Leach's Storm-Petrels (sightings; at least 4 together)
2 Kittiwakes
1 Little Gull
39 Grey Phalaropes
85 Bar Tailed Godwits
11 Grey Plovers
ETC

Observers: Antonio Sandoval, Pablo Lado, Ricardo Hevia, Antonio Martínez Pernas, Jesús Menéndez, Toño Lastra, Carla Soaje, Daniel Monteagudo, Mark Hollingworth, David Taylor, Jan Söversved, Marku Mikkola-Ross, Pekka Nikander, Paul Gnodde.
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Sept 14th: Very nice numbers of many species!

9/13/2017

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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.



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    The main birders at Estaca de Bares cape, in alphabetical order:

    - Ricardo Hevia Barcón
    - Pablo Gutiérrez Varga
    - Daniel López Velasco
    - David Martínez Lago
    - Antonio Martínez Pernas
    - Pablo Pita Criado
    - Antonio Sandoval Rey
    - Alfonso Valderas Farfante

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