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Sightings

To give you an idea of what you might see on your trip, we list all the animals we see every day we run trips rather than just a selection of our 'best' sightings. It would take too long to individually list the species of seabirds we see each day so unless there are exceptional numbers of a species or an unusual sighting, we list them as 'seabirds'. A sightings archive for 2007 is linked at the bottom of the page.

July 2008
22nd July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image, image - harbour porpoise, ocean sunfish (x2) - image - grey seals - image - compass jellyfish - image - and seabirds. Click here for more information about the dolphins
21st July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image, image - grey seals - image - compass jellyfish and seabirds
20th July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image - ocean sunfish - image - grey seals - image - compass jellyfish - image - and seabirds
19th July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4 - grey seals, seabirds and a peregrine falcons
18th July
  
No trips today because of bad weather but while over in St. Ives we watched a pod of bottlenose dolphins feeding just offshore
17th July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image 1, image 2 - , a basking shark, grey seals- image 1 - seabirds including a sooty shearwater and peregrine falcons - image
16th July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image 1, image 2, image 3 - , grey seals- image 1, image 2 - and seabirds - image
15th July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image 1, image 2 - , grey seals, seabirds and a peregrine falcon
14th July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image 1, image 2 - a glimpse of some harbour porpoises,an ocean sunfish, grey seals, seabirds including puffins and a peregrine falcon - image
13th July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image 1, image 2, image 3 - ocean sunfish, Portuguese man-o-war(!!) - image - grey seals, and seabirds including mediterranean gulls
12th July
  
Bottlenose dolphins - image 1, image 2 - a harbour porpoise, an ocean sunfish - image - seals and seabirds including lots of gannets and a storm petrel.
11th July
  
Risso's dolphins - image 1, bottlenose dolphins - image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5, a basking shark, seals - image 6 and seabirds - image 7. Altogether a pretty good day!
8th July
  
Seals in the water and hauled out and seabirds including lots of manx shearwaters and storm petrels - image 1, image 2, image 3
3rd July
  
Seals and seabirds including lots of diving gannets. We also saw a peregrine falcon - image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4 (fulmar)
June 2008
30th June
 
Another choppy day, and we saw a basking shark, the peregrine falcon again (in the same place), lots of gannets and a seal bobbing around in the surf at Porthcurno - image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4
29th June
 
Seals and seabirds in very choppy conditions
28th June
 
A group of 4 harbour porpoises feeding, an ocean sunfish, grey seals dozing on the rocks and seabirds including a sooty shearwater and storm petrels - image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5
26th June
 
With the fresh wind and choppy conditions we could only run an hour trip today. However we still had some great sightings of 3 ocean sunfish, a couple of seals and a variety of seabirds - image 1, image 2, image 3
24th June
 
Over 30 grey seals in two locations, seabirds and fabulous views of a peregrine falcon causing panic at one of the fulmar colonies - image 1, image 2, image 3
23rd June
 
Harbour porpoise, ocean sunfish, lots of grey seals and seabirds including lots of manx shearwaters and a storm petrel - image 1, image 2, image 3
20th June
 
Bottlenose dolphins - Cookie and Sleekie again, a basking shark, an ocean sunfish, lots of grey seals and seabirds includiong large numbers of Manx Shearwaters - image 1, image 2
19th June
  
After a stormy couple of days the swell was still rolling in so we couldn't go far. All the seals we usually see in the bay area had been washed out of their customary places leaving us just seabirds, curlews and two shelducks to look at today on a one hour trip.
16th June
 
Grey seals and seabirds - image
15th June
 
Bottlenose dolphins - Cookie and Sleekie again (we will be checking todays shots to see if they shed any light on the Sleekie issue), ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5, image 6
14th June
 
Some very cute young seals and seabirds - image
13th June
 
Basking shark, ocean sunfish skipping across the surface, lots of grey seals in five different places and seabirds including a puffin and a balearic shearwater - image 1, image 2, image 3
12th June
 
Basking shark (feeding low), grey seals and seabirds - image
11th June
 
Bottlenose dolphins - Cookie and Sleekie (we are studying our shots of Sleekie closely as we are not sure it is Sleekie), grey seals and seabirds including puffins and storm petrels - image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5, image 6
10th June
 
Harbour porpoise, grey seals and seabirds including lots of gannets
9th June
 
Lots of very inquisitive grey seals and seabirds.
8th June
 
Basking sharks one of which was enormous - over 9 metres - image. Two of them were close to us, but there were many more down towards the Brison's rocks. We also saw an ocean sunfish, grey seals in three different places and seabirds including pomarine skuas.
7th June
 
Basking shark, grey seals and seabirds - image
5th June
 
Pod of common dolphins, a few snoozing grey seals and seabirds in very exciting conditions with a big ground swell and brisk north westerly winds - image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4
3rd June
 
Harbour porpoise, grey seals and seabirds
2nd June
 
7+ basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds - image 1, image 2
1st June
 
Lots of grey seals and seabirds - image
May 2008
31st May
 
A total of 15 basking sharks grey seals and seabirds. We also recieved a report of a minke whale and dolphins in the area earlier - image 1 , image 2 , image 3 , image 4
30th May
 
Basking shark, harbour porpoise, ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds - basking shark image, seal image, gannet image
29th May
 
Grey seals and seabirds including two puffins.
28th May
 
A harbour porpoise grey seals (one of them popped up next to us in the harbour as we were about to set off) and seabirds including a puffin.
27th May
 
Lots of grey seals in various places and seabirds image
25th May
 
A group of 6 harbour porpoise, then later another group of 3 harbour porpoises. Lots of very entertaining grey seals and great seabird sightings includung thousands of manx shearwaters. Here are some photos of today's wildlife: image 1, image 2, image 3, image 4, image 5, image 6.
24th May
 
Some very curious grey seals and seabirds
23rd May
 
Lots of grey seals and seabirds. We also saw another ocean sunfish.
22nd May
 
A harbour porpoise image and our first ocean sunfish image of the year as well as grey seals in three different places and lots of seabirds including many diving gannets.
19th May
 
A number of grey seals in three different locations and various seabirds. It was very choppy today so we could only run 1 hour trips.
18th May
 
We saw the bottlenose pod with 9 members today. The smallest calf has grown since we saw them. Here are some pictures image 1 image 2 image 3. We also saw a grey seal and a variety of seabirds.
17th May
 
Two groups of harbour porpoises today the first was a group of 4 (2 adults, a juvenile and a very small calf)) and the second was a mother and calf - the calf was pale grey in colour, much lighter than normal. Lots of grey seals were around and a variety of seabirds including large numbers of gannets. Also glimpsed an unidentified species of shark (we just saw the tip of a dorsal fin), most probably a basking shark - the first one this year!
15th May
 
A good variety of seabirds including sooty shearwaters.
12th May
 
4 harbour porpoises (click here for a picture), lots of grey seals (picture here) in various locations and seabirds (picture here)
11th May
 
Grey seals and seabirds.
10th May
 
6 harbour porpoises, grey seals and a good variety of seabirds. The fog made things difficult today but we managed to find the harbour porpoises in one of their favourite haunts. Click here to see a picture of one of the harbour porpoises from today.
9th May
 
4 harbour porpoises and lots of grey seals and seabirds. Still a good variety of seabirds around. The plankton is building so we are expecting our first basking sharks any day now.
7th May
 
Harbour porpoise and lots of Grey seals and seabirds. Large rolling westerly swell today making for a fun ride.
4th May
 
Lots of grey seals and seabirds. Still large numbers of numbers of Manx shearwaters, guillemots and razorbills

April 2008
27th April
  
2 Bottlenose dolphins, a harbour porpoise, lots of grey seals and seabirds including spectacular numbers of Manx shearwaters, common terns, guillemots and razorbills. Picutres of the bottlenose dolphins can be found on the news page here.
26th April
 
Grey seals including three who look as though they were born towards the end of February and seabirds. Incredible numbers of Manx shearwaters, guillemots and razorbills.
20th April
 
Grey seals and seabirds including lots of Manx shearwaters, common terns, guillemots and razorbills.
15th April
 
A large number of grey seals including 3 juvenilles and seabirds. Manx shearwaters, guillemots and razorbills starting to build up in large numbers.
13th April
Grey seals and seabirds including lots of Manx shearwaters, common terns, guillemots and razorbills.
10th April
Grey seals including a very small juvenille and seabirds.
9th April
Lots of grey seals and seabirds including Manx shearwaters, sandwich terns, common terns ,guillemots and razorbills.
8th April
Lots of grey seals and seabirds including Manx shearwaters, sandwich terns, common terns ,guillemots and razorbills..
5th April
 
Grey seals and seabirds.
3rd April
 
Grey seals and seabirds including Puffins. Most the trip was in a thick fog bank so we couldn't explore to far in search of cetaceans.
March 2008
27th March
  
Grey seals and seabirds
25th March
  
Harbour Porpoises (mother and calf), grey seals and seabirds
24th March
  
Harbour Porpoise, grey seals and seabirds
19th March
 
Bottlenose Dolphins 6 adults, 2 juvenilles and a new born calf (great to see) just outside the harbour
2nd March
 
Grey seals and a variety of seabirds
February 2008
24th February Harbour porpoises feeding and travelling, lots of grey seals and spectacular numbers of seabirds
21st February Lots of grey seals (a mixture of adults and juveniles) hauled out and in the water and a variety of seabirds.
Sightings archive 2007
  Click here to see our sightings page for 2007
  Click here to see a map of our cetacean (whales, dolphins and porpoises) sightings for 2007