Sunday, 11 August 2019

Mwnt seawatch highlights

Highlights from a couple of sessions at Mwnt recently:

18:00-21:00 10th:
2 Balearic Shearwaters
1 Storm Petrel
2 Arctic Skua (dark)
c.7000 Manx Shearwaters
1 juv Arctic Tern
10 Sanderling in off the sea heading south



05:30-11:00 11th:
1 juv. Yellow-legged Gull
1 Puffin
3 Storm Petrels
2 Arctic Skuas
53 Fulmar
400 Kittiwakes
21 Sandwich Terns
5 Med Gulls
58 Common Scoter
Single flock of 19 Chough (+4 on the cliffs)

Also Bottlenose + Common Dolphins and Harbour Porpoises.

Full counts
10th: https://www.trektellen.org/count/view/2445/20190810
11th: https://www.trektellen.org/count/view/2445/20190811

There were also 7 Common Sandpipers, a Greenshank and c.50 Ringed Plovers + Dunlin at Llanrhystud on the 9th.