Day 7

The weather today was worse for sightings than it has been. Despite our best efforts we didn’t see and cetaceans during the day. We have been spoiled so far on the trip, so one day without sightings isn’t the end of the world. But hopefully it will be just the one day.

 After a long day of no cetacean sightings Enda wasn’t quite feeling like himself. (Steven Seagull)

In the absence of cetaceans the birds received plenty of attention which wasn’t hard considering they were following us for most of the day as the crew were fishing. This paid off with us adding a new species to our list bringing the total number of bird species encountered to 13. The new species was the Herring Gull, the other species we saw today were Long Tailed Skua, Pomarine Skua and the ever present Fulmars.  

 Long Tailed Skua (Enda McKeogh)

Hopefully tomorrow the sighting conditions will improve and we will see plenty more cetaceans and birds.