Yes indeedy, the seawatching season has begun as of this very morning. The first reasonable looking SW blow today but wasn't sure quite what to expect as July hasnt even started yet! The first couple of year ticks were easy bankers (puffin and storm petrel), however an immature long-tailed skua through livened things up a bit, before a nice, close great shearwater cruised past. A few sooty shearwaters next, and then a bonxie, followed by pomarine skua and arctic skua, and then a close cory's shearwater - it was all happening!
The icing on the cake was a wilson's petrel, which took its time going by, and then, as the weather closed in, a sabine's gull snuck through, followed by two more and then a flock of three! After that, there were a few repeats, with another great shear, and a cory's, plus three more arctic skuas, before I had to bail out.
Might try for a couple more year ticks this evening though....
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