Seawatch and Intro to a Notepad!!
Seawatch and Intro to a Notepad!! We arrived at Flamborough Head at 6:40am, in hopes of seeing Pomarine and Long-tailed Skua. We saw a few Arctic & Great Skua as well as thousands of Manx Shearwater and Red-throated Diver. Suddenly, one of the seawatchers, Craig calls "adult Pom Skua heading north." I desperately try to get my scope on it, but couldn't. He then lets me look through his scope and says that the bird was going to go through there in a few seconds. I looked through it, in eager anticipation and then there it was, with its spoon-like projections on the tail. I cherish observing the Pom Skua, before going back to my own scope. A few Sooty Shearwater and Little Gulls also flew past afterwards, but nothing else. Craig taught me about how to identify Shearwaters and Skuas in the distance, and that identifying seabirds was a process of elimination, much of it guess work and he felt it necessary that people shout out their opinion and encourage discourse when...