Thursday, 22 September 2011

Mwnt Sea-watch

After re-acquainting myself with all four species of skua at Strumble last week end I was delighted to watch a juvenile Long-tailed Skua fly passed Mwnt this morning. The Long-tailed also happened to be my 100th skua seen in Ceredigion this autumn.

Other birds seen between 7 & 8.30am included:

Arctic Skua 3 pale phase and 1 dark phase adults and 1 juvenile
Bonxie 2
Balearic Shearwater 2
Arctic Tern 3
Sandwich Tern 11
Commic Tern 1

Also Porpoise, Bottle-nosed Dolphins and Grey Seals present.