Another couple of mornings spent seawatching from Castle Point have
produced a few strange sightings. Yesterday a Canada Goose flew south, only to
return north around the same time this morning. This morning a dark-phase Arctic
Skua came in from the south, it slowly flew closer and closer to the shoreline
and before long it was circling over Pen Dinas and drifting further inland. It
then stopped circling and just flew directly inland, where I lost view of it
somewhere down the Rheidol valley. Absolutely bizarre! I have also noticed that
all my Arctic Skua sightings from the last week or so have all been at 8.45am
on the nose. It would be interesting to know why that is.
Edward O'Connor
The Arctic Skua that I had from the castle this morning was also a dark morph and went south at 8.10.