The great surprise of today was a pale morph South Ploar Skua moving west in company of two Great Skuas. Although the bird was flying close enough to watch all the identification details and compare it to the Bonxies, no photographs were taken. Here you can have a look at a paper about the South Polar Skua migration revealed by Data Loggers (Kopp et al., 2011). Here a paper about presumed adult South Polar Skuas watched from Estaca de Bares in 2010 (Sandoval and López Velasco, 2010). And here at one of several photographs taken by Dave McAdams to an individual seen in Sept. 2011.
The passage was nice all through the day with a soft SW wind, but specially towards the evening, specially for Arctic Skuas (40 birds in 30 min. just before having to leave the headland!). These are the main numbers obtained during the 6,45 hs count:
Bonxie 108
Arctic Skua 65
Pomarine 3
Long Tailed Skua 2
Gannet 2,717
Manxie 22
Balearic 203 (and 93 eastwards)
Sootie 127
Cory’s 108
Sandwich Tern 255
“Commic” Tern 172
Little Tern 6
Black Tern 5
Grey Phalarope 5
And also a few Knots, Dunlins, Great Ringed Plovers, Oystercatchers and Great Cormorants.
Observer: Antonio Sandoval
The passage was nice all through the day with a soft SW wind, but specially towards the evening, specially for Arctic Skuas (40 birds in 30 min. just before having to leave the headland!). These are the main numbers obtained during the 6,45 hs count:
Bonxie 108
Arctic Skua 65
Pomarine 3
Long Tailed Skua 2
Gannet 2,717
Manxie 22
Balearic 203 (and 93 eastwards)
Sootie 127
Cory’s 108
Sandwich Tern 255
“Commic” Tern 172
Little Tern 6
Black Tern 5
Grey Phalarope 5
And also a few Knots, Dunlins, Great Ringed Plovers, Oystercatchers and Great Cormorants.
Observer: Antonio Sandoval
400 Gannets/h today. Several of them young birds (Antonio Sandoval)
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