puffins

Finally we had a good weather day (apart from a bit of fog this morning). This half term has left a lot to be desired unfortunately with several days of cancelled trips. And in more good news, as suspected the westerly winds have brought the seals back into the bay. We have really missed them…

More puffins today on our Discovery Voyage trip! (Josh always gets the puffins ☹️ ).  We also had lovely views of a load of other seabirds including Manx shearwaters, guillemots, razorbills, and kittiwakes, and the seals were very curious today. A small pod of harbour porpoises in the late afternoon light were a lovely  end…

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…

July already. It didn’t particularly feel like it out there though – people  had their woolly hats on! On the Ocean Discovery this morning we found a pod of  three porpoises in the bay. They surfaced several times, giving everyone good views. We also saw a non breeding puffin, and a family of guillemots; mum,…

It was a truly lovely day in Mount’s Bay today, with the sea as calm as it has been this year and a host of wonderful wildlife to find. On this morning’s Ocean Discovery we found a couple of seals resting on the island then were delighted to spot a harbour porpoise, just as we…

We had a two rather warm and sunny Ocean Discovery boat trips today. This morning we started the trip with a great northern diver as we left the harbour, then sailed south to look at numerous active gull and gannet groups feeding on the inshore fronts. Following a trail of guillemots and razorbills we found…

We had an Ocean Discovery today on a flat sea with hardly any wind. First of all we watched a great northern diver catch something and devour it – not sure what the victim was, but the diver gave us good views! Further south in a shiny area of plankton we picked up some movement…