On a Sea Trust pelagic yesterday we stopped in at Skomer and Skokholm on the way back. There were very few Puffins in either location whereas last week on a similar trip there had been hundreds in the bays and flying in with fish. We had see quite a few pufflings out at sea as well as many Guillemot youngsters with their dads. So, it would seem, the brief sea bird breeding season is all but over with just the Manxies and Gannets yet to fledge.
We did get 30 miles out into the Celtic Deep on our pelagic despite rather rough conditions and saw good sized groups of Manxies, single Bonxie and Storm Petrel and 2 Turnstones. Grassholm was the usual thilling spectacle and we had 4 encounters with Common Dolphins
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