Cruise from Southampton to Helsinki, August 2nd to 18th.
Migrating birds on and around the ship:
Golden Plover 1 adult sat on the deck. 1 Kestrel 1 female. Great Skua 1 Willow Warbler 2 Grasshopper Warbler 1 I think. Wheatear 1 and 1 in Stockholm.
Birds on the sea:
Sabine's Gull 1 Gannets, Guillimots, Kittiwakes, Fulmars, Cormorants, Commic Terns, Little Tern, Sandwich Tern and all the usual Gulls. 3 possible Balearic Shearwaters.
Helsinki was full of Common Gulls, some Baltic Gulls, I think and Argentatus Gulls.
1 Great White Egret and Grey Herons on approach to Riga.
Migrating birds on and around the ship:
Golden Plover 1 adult sat on the deck.
1 Kestrel 1 female.
Great Skua 1
Willow Warbler 2
Grasshopper Warbler 1 I think.
Wheatear 1 and 1 in Stockholm.
Birds on the sea:
Sabine's Gull 1
Gannets, Guillimots, Kittiwakes, Fulmars, Cormorants, Commic Terns, Little Tern, Sandwich Tern and all the usual Gulls. 3 possible Balearic Shearwaters.
Helsinki was full of Common Gulls, some Baltic Gulls, I think and Argentatus Gulls.
1 Great White Egret and Grey Herons on approach to Riga.