Friday, 23 August 2013

23rd August 2013 Bridges of Ross WNW 3-4 heavy showers

6.30am - 12.30pm & 14.55 - 19.10

Scoter 8
Fulmar c.250
Cory's Shearwater 3 distant
Great Shearwater 37
Manx Shearwater c.3,000
Sooty Shearwater 217
Storm Petrel 8
Leach's Storm Petrel 1 ex.
Gannet c.500
Shag 10
Dunlin 1
Whimbrel c.15
Bonxie 14
Pomarine Skua 2
Arctic Skua 41
Kittiwake c.250
Sabine's Gull 16 adults ex.
Sandwich Tern 2
Arctic Tern 70
Black Tern 1 juvenile
Razorbill c.35
Guillemot 3
Wheatear 2
Chough 2
Hooded Crow 10

Bottlenose Dolphin 3
Grey Seal 1

the view looking south west from Bridges of Ross

easy to understand why so many geologists visit the Bridges of Ross

A Chough also finding the cliffs to its liking