Strumble and Llys-y-fran
Strumble Head. 9am-1pm’ish By the time Paul and I arrived we’d missed 8-9 Arctic skuas, but did manage 3 pale Arctics, pick was an immaculate juv Sabine’s gull, seen very…
Saturday Strumble Watch
From Cheryl Hewitt: I see from the report the numbers of common Scoters seen. I thought I would send you a couple of images of them.
Strumble 16/09/23
Mid Pembs & Pembs Bird Group Watch Time: 08.30 – 12.30 Weather : Dull, some light rain Wind: NNE 5 Common Scoter – 296 Balearic Shearwater – 1 Arctic Skua…
Saturday Strumble Head – continued
The tern passage noted by Steve and Brian continued, albeit at a lesser rate, well into the afternoon when, between 1530h and 1730h, 61 Commic, 1 obvious Arctic, 2 Sandwich…
Strumble – tern time
Echoing Steve’s observations – terns everywhere you looked this morning between 8-12:30. Totals up till we left were 202 Black terns, interesting to see them passing in mixed age flocks…
Strumble Head – Wilson’s storm petrel
Another hopeful visit in a 15mph NNW between 6-12. Not the most dynamic watch with fewer Kittiwake, manxies and gannet passing but inbetween the slow bits there were some high…
Big shears – Strumble
3 Cory’s shearwaters between 6:30-10:30, including a peach of a bird picked up by Martin C obligingly straight out and relatively close in for a big shear (1km?) giving excellent…
Storm Petrels – Strumble
Strumble Head during the night – 14 Storm Petrels ringed and one re-encountered that was ringed on Skokholm last July. (Teifi RG)
Large swallow passage between Strumble Head and Pwll Deri yesterday morning
A walk yesterday morning between Strumble Head and Pwll Deri produced quite impressive numbers of swallows. During a c.3 hr period there must have been at least a thousand or…