Strong south-easterly winds produced some good passage off the West Side with a Pintail, 27 Fulmars, 194 Manx Shearwaters, three Balearic Shearwaters, 127 Gannets, 28 Common Scoters, seven Ringed Plovers, three Knots, 27 Dunlins, six Sanderlings, a Greenshank, six Bar-tailed Godwits, a Pomarine Skua, seven Arctic Skuas, two Little Gulls, a Common Gull, four Little Terns, seven Sandwich Terns, five Common Terns, two Arctic Terns, four 'Commic' Terns, 54 Razorbills, 15 Guillemots and a Risso's Dolphin. The only other highlight today was the first Ruff around Carrag y Honwy.
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Sanderling © Ed Betteridge |
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Today also saw an additional three seal pups increasing the Island total to six |
Other birds recorded today included 24
Purple Sandpipers, four
Sanderlings, four
Dunlins, nine
Ringed Plovers, two
Whimbrels, two
Bar-
tailed Godwits, 30
Curlews, 16
Redshanks, 50
Turnstones, a
Sand Martin, 70
Swallows, 24
House Martins, 226
Meadow Pipits, four
Grey Wagtails, seven
White Wagtails, three '
Alba' Wagtails. 19
Wheatears, two
Whitethroats, a
Blackcap, two
Chiffchaffs, 26 Willow
Warblers, six
Goldcrests and a
Spotted Flycatcher.
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Rock Pipit © Ed Betteridge |
The day ended a with a spot of lamping in favourable conditions, this produced a Whimbrel, three Meadow Pipits and a Moorhen.
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Whimbrel after being colour-ringed © Ollie King |
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