Wednesday 8 July 2015

Breakfast with the Dolphins...

An adult Little Gull went north past Whitburn Obs this morning. The White beaked Dolphins came on the scene quite early and were still in the area when we left.Stoney was in the house and this is what we saw in order of appearance, plus yesterdays sightings

Wednesday 8th July 05.00-07.00 WNW1-2 becoming NW2 full cloud cover/drizzle

Sandwich Tern 13n 130s
Common Tern 7n 20s
Swift 19s
Curlew 1n
Puffin 7n 1s
Black h Gull 1n 5s
Manxie 3n
05.40 White beaked Dolphin 5n distant
Little Gull 1n ad
Red th Diver1n
Arctic Tern 1s
Common Scoter 17n 12s
06.30 White beaked Dolphin 5/6 s close inshore
06.40 Whit beaked Dolphin 2s close inshore
06.55 White beaked Dolphin 6 plus south also 2 youngsters breaching close in shore
Its difficult to be sure how many Dolphins were about but i feel the early group going north were different

Tuesday 7th July04.50-07.00 S1-2

Common Tern 8s
Puffin 5n 6s
Common Scoter 156n 25s
Tufted Duck 1n
Manxie 5n
Common Gull 3s
Golden Plover 1s
Swift 4s
Sandwich Tern 2n 69s
Black h Gull 2n 3s
Great crested Grebe 1s
Arctic Tern 1n
Ringed Plover 1s
Redshank 1n