7th June

 

Plenty more sea interest today with minimum totals at the Bill that included 250 Manx, 45 Balearics, 18 Common Scoter, 3 Arctic Skuas, 3 Common Gulls and singles of GNDiver, Sooty Shearwater and Roseate Tern.

— Portland Bird Observatory (@portlandbirdobs.bsky.social) June 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM

These Manx and Balearic Shearwaters were off the Bill yesterday but the photo could have been taken on any of the last few days such has been the number of both lingering offshore - it's very early in the summer to have totals of upwards of 50 Balearics there © Debby Saunders:


Even single Common Gulls making the log at the Bill in June is an infrequent event so today's three was quite unexpected © Martin Cade