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On the 28th July:
1980
An overnight drive to Porthgwarra to be there by first light, looking down from the cliff top there was a light sea mist which cleared later, we saw our first Cory's Shearwater passing fairly close to the headland as soon as we arrived at about 6.30am, a new bird for us. During the day we saw 54 Cory's Shearwaters, masses of Manx Shearwaters - 60 in the first hour, lots of Gannets, Fulmars and Kittiwakes, 4 Balearic Shearwaters, a Sandwich Tern, 2 Little Terns, a Greenshank, a Sooty Shearwater, a Puffin and on the headland an immature Cuckoo being fed by a pair of Rock Pipits.
On the way home we called in at the Hayle Estuary seeing a summer plumaged Great Northern Diver, 13 Common Sandpipers, 60+ Dunlin and Ringed Plovers, a Ruff and a Whimbrel.
1986
1995
A two day sound recording trip to Skomer, to record Manx Shearwaters for a BBC radio programme.
Landing on the island in the morning I had the day to look around seeing a Porpoise, Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbills, Kittiwakes, gulls, Fulmars, a Skomer Vole and a Short-eared Owl.
Later, in the evening I set up to record the arrival of Manx Shearwaters, of which there were 160,000 pairs.
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Manx Shearwaters arriving on Skomer,
after dusk.
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Manx Shearwater calling outside the entrance to its burrow.
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Adult Manx Shearwater calling to chick in burrow,
chick calls, calls from adjacent burrows and birds outside.
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Photos:
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Right & below right: Puffin.
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Below: Manx Shearwater.
1997
On a sound recording trip to Italy, to Stelvio National Park in the Alps.
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Lammergeier.
2012
A female Montagu's Harrier was seen flying over the garden in Portishead.