Another day leading Yorkshire Coast Nature pelagics off Staithes. The sea was still lumpy, getting over the big northerly swell that had been running all week. This made finding stuff tricky for the first few hours, but hitting the five mile, the swell eased considerably, and we found a big feeding frenzy, with 300 Gannets, 200 Grey Seals, 12 Minke Whales, and best of all, a Great Shearwater feeding with 80+ Sooty Shearwaters. The Great Shear fed by diving from the surface and would disappear for 20-30 seconds, clearly going deep to hunt Herring. The Sooties were also doing this.
Adding further class, a Blue Fulmar cruised past giving great views and my first pics of this form. Also noted, four Bonxies, a single Arctic Skua, Arctic, Common and Sandwich Terns and a dapper juvenile Caspian Gull.
Blue Fulmar, Sooty and Great Shearwaters, plus Fulmar and Kittiwake
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