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Monday, October 31, 2011

HELVICK HEAD:
Seawatch 09:10-11:00 & 12:20-13:05 (CF)
'Blue' Fulmar: 3
Manx Shearwater: 4
Storm Petrel: 1
petrel species: 1 'large'
Red-throated Diver: 5
LONG-TAILED SKUA: 1 juv
Pomarine Skua: 14
Arctic Skua: 27
Great Skua: 30
Little Gull: 4 1st-winter
Sandwich Tern: 2
Fulmar, Gannet, Kittiwake, large auks: strong passage W up to c10:30 (when rain started & wind dropped)
Skua counts underestimates (many distant birds not assigned to species).
On land, 5 Chiffchaffs with good numbers of Blackbirds & Song Thrushes.

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