Sightings

We had a lovely sail today and the light was amazing. It was quiet for marine mammals though there were loads of Manx shearwaters pouring past. The sailing regatta at Marazion continued! We have always said that we report on the quiet days as well as the days when there is loads going on –…

  It was a day of two halves today. This morning’s four hour trip started off calm with light winds – we had a lovely encounter with some sleepy common dolphins and puffins, and there were hundreds of Manx shearwaters rafted on the water further west. We had great views of Land’s End and the…

Happy May Day! Spring has most certainly sprung, though it was a lot cooler and greyer here than in other areas. We had a lovely trip this afternoon with a great variety of seabirds spotted, including kittiwakes, shearwaters and more puffins! At one site we spotted a group of several male and female Eider ducks…

It was a great trip this afternoon in the warm spring sunshine. There was still a choppy sea running after the strong wind of yesterday, but it wasn’t too bad. Quite often with easterly wind you can see very little, but today we very quickly found a pair of Risso’s dolphins who cruised past the…

We left the harbour on this mornings Discovery Voyage in the ‘mizzle’ but this defiantly did not hamper today’s sightings. We stumbled across a large amount of seabirds fairly quickly. They mainly consisted of razorbills, guillemots and Manx shearwaters, many of them returning with sandeels in their beaks. Pulling into the island we counted 5…

There was plenty of seabird action today, with big rafts of shearwaters and gannets who had been feeding very recently. There spotted a guillemot with a sandeel still in its mouth – at some point we will see some puffins. There was a grey seal around the island. The tide has been fairly unfavourable for…

We had a four hour trip this afternoon – boy it was cold! No fins today, but plenty of Manx shearwaters and fulmars and lots of exciting sailing on that northerly wind. There was a seal hauled out on the island and mating season is clearly underway for the gulls – they have very little…

We had a three hour trip this morning in the sunshine and a fairly brisk northwesterly wind, which we haven’t had for a while. It was quiet for cetaceans but we had great views of the seabirds and the coastline was looking spectacular.

It was a beautiful Easter Sunday though rather quiet for wildlife. We ran two Ocean Discovery, with 12 people on each – thanks for joining us today. This morning as well as the seabirds and a grey seal hauled out, we saw the biggest comb jellies we have ever seen though they were too deep…

We had another lovely day on the water today. This morning there was hardly a breath of wind, and apart from the temperature, it felt like a July day out there, with common dolphins and masses of seabirds feeding almost from the start of the trip. They were very intent on their feeding and it…