July 02, 2005
fea's !!
An early start at Galley paid off, as a fea's petrel flew past at 7.40 am !! The morning passage involved over 1,000 cory's shearwaters, 6 great shearwaters, 6 sooty shearwaters, 10 bonxies, 8 arctic skuas, 1 pomarine skua and 2 sabine's gulls. I missed the latter two species as I had to go for a lie down after the fea's!
Hot news then in the form of a 1st summer laughing gull in Clonakilty - a different bird to the Cork City individual from wednesday! Cracking views on the GAA pitch.
A return to seawatching this afternoon produced another 170 cory's shearwaters, c.5 great shearwaters, c.6 sooty shearwaters, bonxie, arctic skua and arctic tern, which was a Galley tick! All in all, 6 new year ticks for the patch (100). | Other Irish news
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What can I say...well done, you LUCKY LUCKY BASTARD!!!!!! Fea's, jeez...got mail from the H telling me, then checked my blog...amazing, it's been an amazing year at home...another Laugher, 2 in a week for you!!! Japan, well Osaka sucks big time. Rainy season hits as we head to beach so we came home early. No birds apart copious amounts of Black Kites and Night Herons...would swap them all for a Fea's...congrats ya langer...feck, how long did you have it for, was it close in...questions...questions
Posted by: Carmo at July 3, 2005 02:55 PM