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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

WEST WATERFORD PELAGIC: Boat-trip from Youghal to c5 miles off Ram Head (9-5) produced 2+ Balearic Shearwaters, 4+ Sooty Shearwaters, 4+ Bonxies, 8+ Stormies, a juvenile Puffin, 500+ feeding Manxies & 4+ Common Dolphins - subject to any later corrections (hard to exclude duplication for some species), also an ad or subadult Mediterranean Gull closer inshore (Paul Archer, Mark Carmody, Declan Clarke, Mark Foley, Owen Foley, Andrew Kelly, Andrew Malcolm, Ronan McLoughlin, Gerry Power, John Power, Ann Trimble, Paul Walsh, Daniel Weldon & boatman Martin Colfer www.charterangling.ie, wind 2-3 E to NE).

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