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  1. jalethbridge

    Cornwall Birding

    Sunday was indeed pretty good, especially at around 11:30! Only a half day as the fog came in, but we really enjoyed ourselves. In addition to the Fea's, we saw ~30 Sooty, ~35 Stormie, 1 presumed Great Shearwater at 7am, 150 or so Manxies, 11 Whimbrel, 5 Shelduck, 1 Puffin, 2 Bonxie and an...
  2. jalethbridge

    Cornwall Birding

    I can only get there for Sunday unfortunately, although the winds still look pretty good, if not as powerful as today. It seems they die down on Saturday but pick up again Sunday to SW force 5-6. Porthgwarra?
  3. jalethbridge

    Cornwall Birding

    What is people's feeling about the sea-watching forecast for the bank holiday weekend? The winds die down from their peak today, but the overall vector is still from the SW the whole of Sun & Mon, generally force 4 to 5. My poor wife may have agreed to let me have the weekend off. Should I come...
  4. jalethbridge

    Cornwall Birding

    I spent all of saturday at Porthgwarra, no biggies but very enjoyable nonetheless. Estimates of 800+ manx, 10 Balearic, 7 Sooty, 1 Med Gull, 6 Bonxie, 1 probable Pom, 3 Common Scoter and a Puffin. Typically the Great SW were seen today when I was on the way home, but that is the way it goes...
  5. jalethbridge

    Cornwall Birding

    Thanks Gastonaut and others. I am going to chance it and come down. I also spoke to Steve, and although conditions not perfect, it seems it is a bit of a lottery anyway. My hope is precisely that the storms in the WApp will have displaced the seabirds I want to see in the previous days, and that...
  6. jalethbridge

    Cornwall Birding

    Hello again, has people's opinion of the forecast changed? Steve at SWO is of the opinion that due to slight deviation in wind direction to SSE on Saturday early AM, sea-watching from Porthgwarra won't be all that hot. It seems to swing back to SW mid-afternoon so that would seem to improve my...
  7. jalethbridge

    Cornwall Birding

    Hello, can anyone advise me if a sea-watch this coming Saturday morning (22nd) would be worth travelling several hundred miles for? I am no good at reading weather charts but it seems that the prevailing direction is from the SW or W, although it dies down by thursday, there is a small low in...
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