11TH AUGUST, 2011
Start Point, Devon
Seawatch 0600-1500:
Great Shearwater (at 12:50), Sooty Shearwater (14:20), 2 Puffin, 16 Balearic Shearwater, 1270 Manx Shearwater, 2 Bonxie, 15 Common Scoter, 6 Common Tern, 2 Sandwich Tern, 7 Auks, 3-5 juv Yellow-legged Gulls, 728 Gannet 10 Kittiwakes (including 3 juvs).

7TH AUGUST. 2011
Start Point, Devon
Seawatch 12:30-18:30: Cory's Shearwater (at 15:25), Sooty Shearwater, only one Balearic Shearwater!, 569 Manx Shearwaters, 13 Common Scoter, 2 Sandwich Terns.

3RD August, 2011
11nm south of Start Point, Devon
From a fishing boat: Pomarine Skua (adult), 3 Great Skua, 3 Arctic Terns, 8 Common Terns, 80+ Manx Shearwaters, 3 European Storm-petrels, 5+ Yellow-legged Gulls (juvs) in with numerous Lesser Black-backs and Herring Gulls and around 100 Fulmars (all double light phase bar one light phase).

Common Tern (adult©Mark Darlaston

28TH JULY 2011
Dorset, Portland
3 Balearic Shearwaters, 7 Manx Shearwaters, 8 Fulmars, Bonxie, Common Tern, 92 Gannets, 60 Herring Gulls, 7 Great Black-backed Gulls, 4 Guillemots and a Grey Seal seen during JNCC/MARINElife transect survey.

22ND JULY 2011

Weymouth, Naturetrek Pelagic

4 Balearic Shearwater, 1 Ocean Sunfish (first one on these trips), 8 Kittiwake, 21 Common Tern, 2 Sandwich Tern, 1 Guillemot, 1 Fulmar, 1 Shag and 31 Gannet. Survey carried out between 16:45 - 20:15. F3 NNE wind, sunny spells. Survey carried out by Tom Brereton and Sarah Anthony on board Tiger Lily of Weymouth.

Balearic Shearwater

Lyme Bay, MARINElife Photo-ID Survey

8 White-beaked Dolphin (interacting and bow-riding for 1hr 15 minutes). Also 3 Harbour Porpoise, 918 Manx Shearwater (1 extended group of 910+ birds), 6 Balearic Shearwater, 3 European Storm Petrel, 6 Great Skua, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 Pomarine Skua, 2 Sandwich Tern, 7 Dunlin (flying E), 3 Common Tern, 41 Kittiwake, 1 Cormorant, 248 Gannet, 27 Fulmar, 289 Guillemot, 352 Herring Gull and 36 Great Black-backed Gull. Survey carried out by James Phillips on board Huntress II of West Bay. F1 NEE with sunny spells; sea state 0-1.

White-beaked Dolphins bow-riding Huntress II in Lyme Bay

20th JULY 2011
Lyme Bay up to 15nm ESE of Berry Head
Early morning 06:30ish. Strong passage of Manx Shearwaters heading south about 1.5 mile off land. Also Pomarine Skua (full spooned adult), Arctic Skua, Great Skua and Common Scoters. Further out several European Storm-petrels and a Sooty Shearwater investigated the boat while fishing.

Called Mike Langman who went to Berry Head at around 08:30 and saw more good passage from land including some Common Dolphins. See http://devonbirdnews.blogspot.com/

19TH JULY 2011

Cornwall, 5nm S-SSW of St Anthony's Head

50-60 Shearwater species seen in flight at 11:00am ~5nm South of St Anthony's Head. At 1pm, 2 miles due West of the earlier sighting a similar number of Shearwater species seen - not close enough to identify to species. Sighting reported by Ken Dodgson, skipper of Leo1, Falmouth.