We recieved a phone call from Pete Marsh this morning saying he`d just had
a Barolo Shearwater off Heysham heading west! After a tense 50 minute wait we thought we had missed the bird, when it was picked up flying west.
It was very nearly missed as the bird was flying low, keeping in the wave troughs
and
rarely banking like a Manxie. Its small size, distinct flight action and
darker upperparts were quite obvious, but the pale face was only seen when the bird banked in the sunlight. It was presumably a Barolo Shearwater after
the splitting of the Little Shearwater complex.
Offshore
23 Common Scoters west, 1 male Velvet Scoter, 1
Red-breatsed Merganser west, 4 Red-throated Divers west, 1 presumed Barolo Shearwater west at 08:43, 2 Manx Shearwaters west, 4 Gannets west, 1 Arctic Skua west, 2 Guillemots west, 6 Sandwich terns west, 11 Kittiwakes west and 1 Little
Gull.
Manx Shearwater
Others
22 Teal, 12 Little Egrets, 38 Ringed Plovers, 8 Grey Plovers, 175
Lapwings, 31 Black-tailed Godwits, 48 Turnstones, 33 Knots, 134 Sanderlings, 45
Dunlins, 1 Greenshank, 480 Redshanks, 3 Med. Gulls, 1 Kingfisher and 50
Goldfinch.
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