Wednesday 30th October

We had an Ocean Discovery trip this afternoon with a mixture of locals and some late season visitors. It was a very similar day to yesterday with lots of common dolphins and bluefin tuna feeding inshore, along with all sorts of seabirds. These included gannets and gulls of course, and four species of shearwaters again. Why are there so many of them feeding so close to shore at this time of year? Something is driving it. Ordinarily the Manxies would have headed across the Atlantic by now and we wouldn’t even be seeing the larger ones – something is afoot in the world of shearwaters.