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Fantastic Four

Got my fourth Fea's petrel off brandon, Kerry on saturday.
It was my intention to go to brandon on saturday early.But when the alarm went off at 4 i rolled over and said fuck it!

I left cork at 9 and was there for 12.
There were reasonable numbers of sooties going by and i noticed a huge flock of feeding shearwaters further down the coast.
I walked down and was immediately greeted by a wilsons petrel just off shore amongst the flock.
The bird danced around on the water and did a few laps of the feeding flock.
A great shearwater also came into this flock and did the same looking truly massive at this distance.
After a while the flock dispersed and i headed back to the car park for lunch.
After finishing my smoked turkey and gouda sandwich (POSH) i looked back in my scope off the car park and was quickly looking at a Fea's petrel.
The bird was just drifting along slowly giving great views.
It hit a small feeding flock of 30 manxies and circled this flock 5 times before heading out west.
In all i had the bird for 5-6 minutes.
It was weird seeing this one because there was no one else around.so the usual shouting and swearing and giving of directions and panic wasnt there.
I just watched it at my ease!
Truly class.

Total counts were about 200 sooties.1 wilsons.30 stormies.5 probable wilsons.1 great shearwater.1 pomarine skua.2 bonxies.2 arctics skuas.1 little egret!!!!on a seawatch!!!;)...and one fea's.

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Posted by pariah at August 15, 2005 02:08 PM