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Sunday, September 25, 2011

HELVICK HEAD:
Seawatch 12:00-17:00 (CF, MC, PMW)
Weather: wind 4-5 SW, vis moderate to good
Balearic Shearwater: 5 W incl very pale bird @ 13:15
Sooty Shearwater: 5 W
Great Shearwater: 1
Manx Shearwater: <30
'Blue' Fulmar: 1
Storm Petrel: 4 W
Common Scoter: 1 male W
Grey Phalarope: 2 W
Arctic Skua: 10 (5+ W)
Great Skua: 20 (9+ W)
SABINE'S GULL: 1 juv W @ 16:42
Roseate Tern: 20+
Little Tern: 1
Arctic, Common, Sandwich Terns: large nos
Black Tern: 5 juvs (2 into Dungarvan Bay, 3 W singly)
Puffin: 3
Porpoise: 1-2
Also a Merlin (CF).

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