Bonjour,

Hier, mercredi 20 Aout 2003, 1 Sterne voyageuse adulte en plumage
inter-nuptial se trouvait dans le port de Tanger en compagnie de
quelques sternes caugeks, de 2 guifettes noires et de 2 goelands
d'Audouin (ad. et juv.).

Cordialement,
Laurent GODET

Hi there,

today brought us good surprises at le Clipon (Northern France):

- Cory's Shearwater: 2. The species is rare in this part of the Northern sea
and is not recorded annually from our post. An unidentified large shearwater
was possibly a third of the same species

- Sabine's Gull: 2 1st summer birds
- Pomarine Skua: 1
- Red-necked Grebe: 1

Observations by: Daniel Haubreux, Olivier Fontaine et Thierry De Ryckel

More details and full daily counts on:
<A
HREF="http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/CliponFR/index.htm">http://users.skynet.b\
e/digibirds/CliponFR/index.htm</A>

Regards
Benoit Paepegaey


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Hi all.

These are the results of seawatch at Estaca de Bares cape (the northernmost
cape of Spain, at A Coruna, Galicia, NW Spain) during 14-17 august (birds
moving eastwards not included; waders not included):

14.08.03
1h; Wind: W

17 Calonectris diomedea
10 Puffinus mauretanicus
93 Morus bassanus
5  Melanitta nigra
2  Stercorarius pomarinus
5  Stercorarius parasiticus
15 Sterna sandvicensis
27 Sterna hirundo/paradisaea/dougallii

15.08.03
4h45'; Wind: SW

42 Calonectris diomedea
15 Puffinus puffinus
25 Puffinus mauretanicus
97 Morus bassanus
32 Melanitta nigra
7  Stercorarius pomarinus
29 Stercorarius parasiticus
1  Larus melanocephalus
17 Sterna sandvicensis
72 Sterna hirundo/paradisaea/dougallii
15 Chlidonias niger

16.08.03
8h45'; Wind: NW

64 Calonectris diomedea
6  Puffinus griseus
19 Puffinus puffinus
43 Puffinus mauretanicus
226 Morus bassanus
48 Melanitta nigra
1  Melanitta fusca
13 Stercorarius pomarinus
49 Stercorarius parasiticus
13 Catharacta skua
1  Larus marinus
369 Sterna sandvicensis
220 Sterna hirundo/paradisaea/dougallii

17.08.03
5h45'; Wind: NW

35 Calonectris diomedea
4  Puffinus puffinus
59 Puffinus mauretanicus
152 Morus bassanus
59 Melanitta nigra
20 Stercorarius pomarinus
20 Stercorarius parasiticus
1  Stercorarius sp.
15 Catharacta skua
188 Sterna sandvicensis
57 Sterna hirundo/paradisaea/dougallii

Best regards

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Svellingen 19/08/03
Hello All,
Managed a couple of hours seawatching at Svellingen from ten in the morning
until noon.
The list is as follows:

Fulmar  1 south
Sooty Shearwater  1
Northern Gannet   30 north - 11 south
Cormorant 12 north - 4 south - 8 resident
Shag  3
Common Eider  2
Eurasian Oystercatcher 20 south
Red Knot  2 south
Dunlin  33 south
Eurasian Curlew  1 south
Common Redshank  7 south
Great Skua  2 south
Black-legged Kittiwake  1 juv  north.

4 species of gull present in the area but no direct movements. Minimal
passerine movement with only some small flocks of Barn Swallow heading
south.

All the best,
Eddie Chapman.  Voss.  Norway.  echapman@...
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Hi seawatchers !

Clipon/Dunkerque (F) 19/08/03 6h15-12h00 WSW-->NW 3
everything heading SW :

Gannet 178
Fulmar 5
Teal 10
Common Scoter 192
Kestrel 1
Oystercatcher 3
Grey Plover 1
Common Sandpiper 2
Sanderling 2
Knot 2
Whimbrel 1
Turnstone 1
Sandwich Tern 253
Common Tern 1539
Little Tern 7
Black Tern 5
Arctic Skua 12 (mostly juveniles)
Unidentified Skua 1
Great Skua 1
Kittiwate 31
SABINE'S GULL 1 summer plumaged adult within a flock of Common Terns
at 11h17 (the first of the season).
Swallow 2
White Wagtail 1
Northern Wheatear 1

There is still someone counting at the moment. Full counts this
evening on http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/Clipon.htm

See you soon !
Ludovic Scalabre, Thierry de Ryckel and Nicolas Selosse

Hi,

I've just returned from a week in the Algarve region in Portugal. During the
last few days, I concentrated  on sea watching from Cabo Sao Vicente
(Sagres).

Total of the more interesting species from a total of 7:40 hours count
between 15/8 and 17/8:

Scopoli's/Cory's shearwater: 200 (I suppose mainly Scopoli's?)
Balearic shearwater: 5
Gannet: 239
Great skua: 2
Arctic skua: 3
undet. skua: 3

Common dolphin: group of >50 on 17/8

Scopoli's were partially passing in both directions and partially
feeding/bobbing about/hanging around, so the real number of actual
individuals was probably lower due to double counts. Numbers of Balearics
were much lower than I thought they would be. All skuas passed on 17/8.
As you can see, there was not too much variation...

A Dolphin watching trip along the Algarve coast did not produce any
dolphins, but we did have two sightings of Wilson's petrel (possibly twice
the same)

For those who are interested: I heard that there will be a pelagic birding
trip from Sagres next week, organised by Simon Wates if I'm not mistaken.

Bye
Nico Geiregat
Belgium

Sea-watching highlights Suffolk UK 17 August 2003

Aldeburgh 2 Cory's Shearwater
Lowestoft Storm Petrel
Covehythe 5 Sooty Shearwater
Landguard Long-tailed Skua

Robin Chittenden

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Dear friends,
Some 8 hours seabird watching at 16 and 17th of August from LVS, near
Noordwijk, NL, produced 3 southward bound juvenile RED NECKED GREBES  (1,2).
Together with the stream of Sandwich- and Common terns (several hundreds of
both species), we identified 5 (most juvenile) ARCTIC SKUAS.

groet van
jan wierda

Dunkerque (France) / Clipon yesterday saturday 16.

On morning, nearly nothing... (about 9h30)
Hen Harrier (hunting, local flight) juv/fem, in the dunes.
wind: ENE 3/4
Sea : state 2 (calm)

Afternoon:
Weather : nice
14h30 - 17h
Wind NE 4, then NNE 5/6
Sea : state 3 then 4.

Common Terns env 80
Sandwich Terns 15
Cormoran 6
Arctic Skua 2 (included 1 juv) (at 16h and 16h30)
along the dam: Dunlin 15 (in 2 groups); and Turnstone 1



good birding



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Hi seawatchers !

Hopefully things have changed since yesterday !  Birds are now moving in
good numbers after more than 10 "blank" days...

13/08/03
1 Balearic Shearwater
2 summer plumaged Dotterel
6 Pomarine Skuas
5 Arctic Skuas
2 Bonxies
2500+ Common Terns
1 Pied Flycatcher and 6 Willow Warbler on the dyke
...

14/08/03
1 Balearic Shearwater
1 Manx Shearwater
10+ Fulmar
350+ Gannets
18 Arctic Skuas
2 Pomarine Skuas
1 probable juvenile Long-tailed Skua (just too far to be certain)
...

Full counts and list species on http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/Clipon.htm

Friendly,
Nicolas

Hi there!

Does anyone have some information on the possible Black-capped Petrel
(Pterodroma hasitata) sighted at Girdle Ness, Aberdeenshire (GB) yesterday?

That would be a third for GB and the WP, right?

Regards
Benoit Paepegaey
Dunkerque, France




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Hi all!

A deep depression moving eastwards across southern
Norway has so far today Thursday 14/8 produced several
pelagic species along the Swedish westcoast.

All birds below have been migrating with southern
direction:

BALEARIC SHEARWATER (Puffinus mauretanicus):

1 Hönö & Vinga, Gothenburg 07:23 & 07:43
1 Hönö & Vinga, Gothenburg 12:13 & 12:23
1 Onsalahalvön, Halland 13:30 (probably one of the two
birds above)

MANX'S SHEARWATER (Puffinus puffinus):

4 Sote huvud, Bohuslän 06:36
2 Vinga, Gothenburg 09:19
1 Hönö Gothenburg 13:50
2 Glommen, Halland 16:14

NORTHERN GANNET (Sula bassana):

Great influx! Highest counts: > 500 Hallands väderö,
Skåne until noon & 410 Vinga, Gothenburg until noon.

NORTHERN FULMAR (Fulmarus glacialis):

81 Vinga, Gothenburg until noon.

GERAT SKUA (Chataracta skua):

Several reports along the west coast. Highest count:
29 Vinga, Gothenburg until noon.

POMARINE SKUA (Stercorarius pomarinus):

2 ad Glommen & Busör, Halland 14:10 & 14:52

LONG-TAILED SKUA (Stercorarius longicaudus):

1 juv Sote huvud, Bohuslän 11:44

Thats all for now! Hopefully the "pelagic-festival"
will continue tomorrow since the wheather forecasts
looks very good for seawatching, wind-forces between
13 & 18 m/s from W & NW promised!


/ Best regards,

   David Erterius, Sweden






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Hello All,
This is my first mail to this list, and as the seawatching season takes off,
there will be more. Most of my seawatching is done from the island of Sotra
near Bergen, and the island of Fedje that lies north of Bergen. Fedje has a
webcam with the picture showing a part of the island with mainland Norway in
the background.
http://www.worldlive.cz/en/webcams-125-norway-755-webcam-fedje

As for Sotra I do most of my seawatching at two localities. Golta in the
south and Svellingen in the north. Though these localities are on the same
island, they are quite different with Golta being a typical seawatching site
with open sea and sea cliffs where one can sit. Svellingen is different in
the fact that though there is open sea there are several small islands and a
low advantage point of about 10 m above sea level. Though Svellingen is not
ideal for seawatching it is a very interesting area, and you would be
surprised at the number of seabirds that pass by. During wader migration
many species stop to rest and feed on the small islands and during the
summer good numbers of tern and gull can be found in the area, this in turn
seems to attract Artic Skua Stercorarius parasiticus.

The other good seawatching site on Sotra is Skogsøy. This area is well
watched by other birders from the Bergen area, hence the reasons I chose
alternative sites for my seawatching. However I will try and keep the group
updated with news from this site too.

Here is the latest observations from Skogsøy.

Red-throated Diver        Gavia stellata   1 north
Red Knot                       Calidris canutus  12
Great Skua                    Stercorarius skua  1 north and 1 south.
Arctic Skua                   Stercorarius parasiticus 1 north
Common Guillemot        Uria aalge  200 on the sea but drifting south.

That's all for now, but it shouldn't be too long before the next report.

All the best,
Eddie Chapman.  Voss.  Norway.  echapman@...
The best site by site guide for Norway: www.birdwatching-in-norway.com
Personal Guiding; Scheduled and Custom Tours - Latest Observations

Hi seawatchers !

During the present heat wave and windless days, the seawatching
sessions are very quiet. So why not having some mental excitments ?
Could someone up north tell us if 2003 will be THE year of the skuas ?
Do they had a successfull reproduction ?
Regards,

Nicolas

Bonjour,

Pointe des Saisies / Gâvres / Morbihan / Bretagne sud (South Brittany) /
France

05/08/03 : 07h30-09h15, NW 3-4 B, sunny

* 7 Puffins sp. / shearwaters sp. en vol E.
* 1 Puffin fuligineux / Sooty Shearwater en vol W.
* 2 Puffins des anglais / Manx Shearwaters en vol E.
* 11 Puffins des baléares / Balearic Shearwaters en vol W.
* 5+ Fous de Bassan / Northern Gannets en vol W.
* 6 Macreuses noires / Common Scoters en vol W.
* 20+ Sternes caugeks / Sandwich Terns en vol E.
* 5+ Sternes pierregarins / Common Terns en vol E.
* 4 Sternes naines / Little Terns en vol E.
* 3 alcidés sp. / alcidae sp. en vol E.
* 250+ Hirondelles de rivage / Sand Martins en vol E.
* 150+ Hirondelles rustiques / Common Swallows en vol E.
* 10+ Hirondelles de fenêtre / House Martins en vol E.

Yann Kerninon
Groupe Ornithologique Breton

Hi there!

Migration at le Clipon this morning was quite poor. Two reasons for this: fog
during the first hours of the day followed by a warm windless sunny weather.

Balearic Shearwater: 1
Arctic Skua: 1 3cy
We also had a continuous Common Tern migration although not as strong as
during the week.

Day totals before tonight at: <A
HREF="http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/Clipon.htm">http://users.skynet.be/digibi\
rds/Clipon.htm</A>

Regards

Benoit Paepegaey


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-----Message d'origine-----
De : NBHC ID-FRONTIERS Frontiers of Field Identification
[mailto:BIRDWG01@...]De la part de Harry Legrand
Envoye : vendredi 1 aout 2003 20:29
A : BIRDWG01@...
Objet : [BIRDWG01] [Fwd: Interesting Storm-Petrel From May 27 trip]


Folks:
         I can't remember if Brian Patteson's interesting photo of a possible
British Storm-Petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) was submitted for comments
to this listwerve. By clicking on his website, one can view the photo
and a close-up, and see some comments from other folks.

As I am chair of the NC Bird Records Committee, I'm obviously interested
in comments. Note that there are no records (or even sight reports) for
NC waters previously. There are a very few specimens for the Atlantic
coast (including a very old one from SC, I believe). I am sure that the
report will be reviewed by our Committee at some point. Ricky Davis
(Regional editor for North American Birds) told me over the phone that
he was planning to include it in the Spring Season report, with Ned
Brinkley's (Editor of the magazine) support. Both are experienced
pelagic birders off the NC/VA coast, Ned especially so. I also am, but I
expressed to Ricky my concern about the extreme angle of the photo, and
that I might want him to mention it but not in boldface, and with some
cautionary words like "possible" or "probable", etc. I recall the great
disparity of reponses over this listeserve on much better angle photos
of black-and-white shearwaters that could have been Manx, Audubon's, or
Greater!

A few responses back to this listserve are OK, or respond to Brian. As
probably no one on the NC Committee has familiarity with the species, I
may want to have a nice volume of responses to help us out --
un-official outside review, so to speak. We're not quite dealing with a
first North American report (like NC has had to do with Swinhoe's
Storm-Petrel, White-chinned Petrel, and Brown Skua -- accepting the
first but not the latter two) -- but it's almost the same. No one has
claimed to see a free-flying British Storm-Petrel off the mid-Atlantic
coast, at least in these waters -- and at least not while viewing it on
a boat! It's most unfortunate that observers didn't see this mystery
bird at the time. I assume everyone was looking at the larger
Band-rumped and focusing on it.
--
Harry LeGrand
NC Natural Heritage Program
DENR   Office of Conservation and Community Affairs
1601 MSC
Raleigh, NC 27699-1601
(919) 715-8697 (work)
FAX: 919-715-3085
e-mail: harry.legrand@...


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Today (only) 13 hours of counting

Good numbers (4500 birds) and the following highlights : 2380 common terns, 500+
common scoters, 630 bar-tailed godwits, 6 great skuas, 6 arctic skuas.

Full list and counts at http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/Clipon.htm

See you tomorrow for further news from Le Clipon !

Christophe Gruwier




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Today at Le Clipon (Dunkerque/France)  05h45 - 17h45 :
4 Balearic Shearwaters
510 Gannets
3 Arctic Skuas
1 Pomarine Skua
3 Great Skuas
1530 Common Terns
...

<A
HREF="http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/CliponFR/index.htm">http://users.skynet.b\
e/digibirds/CliponFR/index.htm</A>

Best regards,
Julien Boulanger,
Dunkerque


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Hello,

Quite a good variety today at Le Clipon (Dunkerque/France) with nearly 4000
birds of 31 different species (everything going south):

- 4 Balearic Shearwaters
- 500+ Gannets
- 900+ Common Scoters
- 3 Arctic Skuas
- 1 Pomarine Skua
- 3 Bonxies
- 1500+ Common Terns
- 60 Black Terns
and many shorebirds.
And in the morning probably the same 3 Grey Herons seen a few hours before
at Westkapelle (NL)...
There is still someone counting at the moment.

Full list and counts at http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/Clipon.htm

See you tomorrow for further news from Le Clipon !

Nicolas

Hello,
Regarding the Balearic Shearwaters, we had 12 birds (9 south and 3
north) in July (the first one on 17th) including one very dark bird
(all the others were intermediate morphs).
In addition 4 more birds have been seen this morning (1st Augustus),
unfortunately for our northern neighbours, all of them going south...
Regards,
Nicolas Selosse
http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/Clipon.htm

1900 -> 2045
1 Pomarine Skua
> 60 Storm Petrels
1 Balearic Shearwater
1 Corys Shearwater
1 Adult Sabines Gull

...Kevin

Sorry...

...It seems that the former oversummering grounds off W France has been
partially left and birds NOW could tend to concentrate off N Spain, in
Euskadi to Galicia coasts.

...

Ricard Gutiérrez

Hello all:

I hope you've got the oportunity of reading the last number of july of
Birding World in which I tried to stress the interest of monitoring the
oversummering numbers of Balearic Shearwater (P.mauretanicus) in the
Atlantic this year, especially after the Prestige wreck that is STILL
bringing fuel to N Spain coasts...

I'm writing a paper on ID of this form plus yelkouan and puffinus for the
same journal to be published this year and besides I'm involved in a
conservation campaign of these shearwaters here in NE Spain. Hence, I'd like
to ask you to report sightings of these birds this summer wherever in the
Atlantic and, if possible, to further clarify the status and ID of this
group to classify them into three groups: pale birds (mostly whitish
underparts), dark birds (very dark, almost complete dark brown body) or
intermediate (the usual form, rather dark but with central part of body
white). For me, pale forms should represent less than 10% of total but this
should be more carefully checked.

This plea has a reason: It seems that the former oversummering grounds off W
France has been partially left and birds not tend to concentrate off N
Spain, in Euskadi to Galicia coasts.
Hence, any information on summer sightings would be very interesting to
further understand the pattern of dispersal of this truly endangered
species.
Thanks all

Ricard Gutiérrez
1.8.2003


-----Mensaje original-----
De: Jan Wierda [mailto:jan.wierda@...]
Enviado el: jueves, 31 de julio de 2003 20:38
Para: euro-seawatching
CC: willem jan; pieter
Asunto: [euro-seawatching] Langevelderslag NL july 2003


Dear all,
Please allow me to introduce Langevelderslag (LVS) shortly to you?! LVS is
situated in the middle of the Dutch coast (20 km North of The Hague). The
'crew' consists of Pieter Thomas, Willem Jan Hooijmans and myself. Last year
we filled some 300 'hour-cards' for seawatching, but enough intro!

As most Dutch seawatchers, we love SHEARWATER, especially BALEARIC! This
explains  our intensive watching during July. Well, after 71 hours this
month,  we managed to see ONE, at 28th passing North. It passed very close,
so we had exiting views.

The 27th also a MANX passed North.

Further highlights during July: at the beginning of the month 15 ARCTIC SKUA
(11 on 5th) and 1 POMARINE SKUA on 19th. Further we want to mention an
increase of sightings of MED GULLS, indicating succesful breeding in the
North. We saw a record number of 22 this month(adults, 2nd summer, juvenile
and -almost- second winter).

wish you all good birding during August!
jan wierda




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Hi!

This morning at Cap-Gris-Nez (Audinghen) / Pas-de-Calais (France)

31/07/2003
10h40 - 11h40 (1 hour)
wind SW (weak)
nice & hot

English / French (Latin)

Eider / Eider à duvet (Somateria mollissima) 44 (resting)
Northern Fulmar / Fulmar boréal (Fulmarus glacialis) 1
Cormorant / Grand Cormoran (Phalacrocorax carbo) 2 N + 1 S
Oystercatcher / Huitrier Pie (Haematopus ostralegus) 38
Sandwich Tern / Sterne caugek (Sterna sandvicensis) ** 237 **
Common Tern / Sterne PG (Sterna hirundo) 78
Swallow / Hirondelle de cheminée (Hirundo rustica) 14


Other birds on the site : only Linnets / Linottes, Meadow Pipit /
Pipits farlouses,
etc ...

see you soon!


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Dear all,
Please allow me to introduce Langevelderslag (LVS) shortly to you?! LVS is
situated in the middle of the Dutch coast (20 km North of The Hague). The
'crew' consists of Pieter Thomas, Willem Jan Hooijmans and myself. Last year
we filled some 300 'hour-cards' for seawatching, but enough intro!

As most Dutch seawatchers, we love SHEARWATER, especially BALEARIC! This
explains  our intensive watching during July. Well, after 71 hours this
month,  we managed to see ONE, at 28th passing North. It passed very close,
so we had exiting views.

The 27th also a MANX passed North.

Further highlights during July: at the beginning of the month 15 ARCTIC SKUA
(11 on 5th) and 1 POMARINE SKUA on 19th. Further we want to mention an
increase of sightings of MED GULLS, indicating succesful breeding in the
North. We saw a record number of 22 this month(adults, 2nd summer, juvenile
and -almost- second winter).

wish you all good birding during August!
jan wierda

hello all,

The highlights of two hours at Westkapelle, Netherlands [51.34N
03.26E] this morning:
-little egret
-11 med Gulls
-2 yellowlegged Gulls
- 1 wood Sandpiper
migration of terns started quite well, with 300 common terns between
7 and 7.30 but stopped soon after. Small numbers of gannet and waders.
still no Balearic shearwaters this year....

for results of other species see also http://www.birdingzeeland.nl
click on "telpost Westkapelle"


Sander Lilipaly

Hi,
Today at Le Clipon (Dunkerque/France)  05h45 - 17h00
2 Red-necked Grebes
4 Balearic Shearwaters
7 Fulmar
1000+ Common Scoters
1 Arctic Skua
1 Pomarine Skua
2 Bonxies
1400+ Common Terns
450+ Sandwich Terns
+ Lots of shorebirds, some dabbling ducks,...

Counts to 5pm are on the site, fully counts tonight.
http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/CliponFR/index.htm
Have a good seawatch !

Nicolas


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Hi all,
   While not coming up with anything as exciting as the "soft-
plumaged"(presumably Fea's)Petrel seen at Galley yesterday
evening,three of us had the following there this morning between 7am
and 12 noon:
2 Great Shearwaters
4 Sooty Shearwaters
6 Balearic Shearwaters
22 Great Skuas
2 Arctic Skuas
14 Common Scoter
70+ Storm Petrels
Surely we will eventually connect with a "Softie"..?;-)
               Harry Hussey,Cork,Ireland

Hello,

This morning (29/07/2003) an impressive passage of waders took place
at Le Clipon (Dunkerque/France).  In less than 2 hours, more than 1200
Redshank and 70 Greenshanks passed through.
More details at our site :
http://users.skynet.be/digibirds/Clipon.htm
Regards,
Nicolas Selosse
Belgium