The day dawned with limited expectations, the sea was relatively quiet and overhead passage was fairly low.
At around 07:00 we started to see a small passage of Shearwaters and then by 07:30 it really kicked off.
The following are rough totals: c700 Great Shearwater (all within 30 minutes), in excess of 500 Manx Shearwater, c15 Balearic Shearwater and 4 Sooty Shearwater.
Plus, 3 Great Skua, 8 Arctic Skua, c50 Sandwich Tern, c20 Common/Arctic Tern, 4 Mediterranean Gull, 200+ Gannet, c30 Kittiwake and c20 Auk sp.
The sea movement petered out towards midday so attention focussed on land birds.
A Marsh Harrier, 3 Raven, a Little Owl, a Short-eared Owl (in, off the sea), a couple of Oystercatcher, 14 Grey Wagtail, 2 Yellow Wagtail, 15 Swallow, 2 House Martin, 5 Sand Martin, c40 Meadow Pipit, 1 Tree Pipit, 8 Wheatear, 3 Whinchat, 1 Stonechat, 1 Blackcap, 1 Common Whitethroat, several Chiffchaff, 2 Willow Warbler and 1 Firecrest.
A small pod of Common Dolphin offshore and a couple of Blue-fin Tuna sightings.
Dragonflies: Emperor and Common Darter.
Butterflies: Small White, Red Admiral, Painted Lady, Speckled Wood and Small Heath.
Sunrise
Firecrest
Convolvulus Hawk Moth
Marsh Harrier
Wheatear (above & below)
Raven
Little Owl
Painted Lady
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