Friday 10 June 2011

10TH JUNE. 2011
30+nm SSE off Start Point, Devon
Good birds around the boat today. Highlight was a Sabine's Gull (presumed first summer, lacking full black head or yellow bill tip of adult), an adult Yellow-legged Gull, 50+ European Storm-petrels, 2 Bonxies. Surprisingly the most numerous gulls were 1oo+ Lesser Black-backed (mostly adults - failed or non-breeders?), with a handful of Herring and Great Black-backed .