Got out sea-watching on Thursday morning only to be driven back indoors by a morning of torrential rain. That evening I was stuck at home when the sooties started flowing past... Yesterday I managed to spend plenty of time in the field with the kids but still left empty-handed, no sooty shearwaters or Leach's petrels for me. Three hours at Yttre Kattvik did produce a huge count of 175 gannets, two Arctic skuas and five great skuas. Raptors were moving too with merlin (6) and hen harrier (male) in-off.
After lunch we headed out again to check out the action off Ripagården. Here we had a single red-necked grebe (scarce at the moment), 25 gannets south, a great skua and a couple of 1K little gull. A 1K skua heading south was good for pomarine but I had a nightmare day with skuas. One of those days where you get very confused - hopefully a prelude to greater enlightenment.
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