15th & 18th August 2015 - West Cornwall and Prawle Point
On Saturday I took up the offer, courtesy of Adrian Thomas (skipper) and Martin Elliott (spotter and chum operative), of a trip aboard the Mermaid II out of Penzance. Eight hours around Wolf Rock and the Runnel Stone produced a few hundred Manx and about ten Balearic Shearwaters, a couple of Sooties and a dozen or more Storm-petrels, a few juv Yellow-legged Gulls followed us for a while and a couple of Bonxies dropped in. Risso's and Bottle-nosed Dolphins, Porpoises, Minke and an unidentified larger whale added to the day's entertainment.
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| Manx Shearwater - 15/8/2015 Cornwall |
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| British Storm-petrel - 15/8/2015 Cornwall |
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| Fulmar - 15/8/2015 Cornwall |
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| Fulmar - 15/8/2015 Cornwall |
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| Yellow-legged Gull juv/1W - 15/8/2015 Cornwall |
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| Yellow-legged Gull juv/1W - 15/8/2015 Cornwall |
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| Yellow-legged Gull juv/1W - 15/8/2015 Cornwall |
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| Common Dolphin - 15/8/2015 Cornwall |
Tuesday saw me at Prawle Point for a marathon 14 hour seawatch - part of the co-ordinated Balearic Shearwater Survey for MARINElife and RSPB. Tony Marchese and I recorded a respectable 32 Balearics, all before midday; also a couple of thousand Manx and a Bonxie - not bad for conditions better suited to sunbathing than seawatching.
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