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 |
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21st July |
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20th July |
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19th July |
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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 |
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17th July |
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16th July |
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15th July |
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14th July |
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13th July |
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12th July |
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11th July |
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8th July |
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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) |
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| June 2008 | ||||
30th June |
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29th June |
Seals and seabirds in very choppy conditions |
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28th June |
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26th June |
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24th June |
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23rd June |
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20th June |
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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. |
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16th June |
Grey seals and seabirds - image |
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15th June |
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14th June |
Some very cute young seals and seabirds - image |
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13th June |
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12th June |
Basking shark (feeding low), grey seals and seabirds - image |
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11th June |
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10th June |
Harbour porpoise, grey seals and seabirds including lots of gannets |
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9th June |
Lots of very inquisitive grey seals and seabirds. |
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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. |
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7th June |
Basking shark, grey seals and seabirds - image |
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5th June |
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3rd June |
Harbour porpoise, grey seals and seabirds |
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2nd June |
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1st June |
Lots of grey seals and seabirds - image |
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| May 2008 | ||||
31st May |
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30th May |
Basking shark, harbour porpoise, ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds - basking shark image, seal image, gannet image |
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29th May |
Grey seals and seabirds including two puffins. |
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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. |
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27th May |
Lots of grey seals in various places and seabirds image |
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25th May |
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24th May |
Some very curious grey seals and seabirds |
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23rd May |
Lots of grey seals and seabirds. We also saw another ocean sunfish. |
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22nd May |
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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. |
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18th May |
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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! |
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15th May |
A good variety of seabirds including sooty shearwaters. |
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12th May |
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11th May |
Grey seals and seabirds. |
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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. |
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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. |
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7th May |
Harbour porpoise and lots of Grey seals and seabirds. Large rolling westerly swell today making for a fun ride. |
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4th May |
Lots of grey seals and seabirds. Still large numbers of numbers of Manx shearwaters, guillemots and razorbills |
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April 2008 |
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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. |
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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. |
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20th April |
Grey seals and seabirds including lots of Manx shearwaters, common terns, guillemots and razorbills. |
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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. |
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13th April |
Grey seals and seabirds including lots of Manx shearwaters, common terns, guillemots and razorbills. |
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10th April |
Grey seals including a very small juvenille and seabirds. |
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9th April |
Lots of grey seals and seabirds including Manx shearwaters, sandwich terns, common terns ,guillemots and razorbills. |
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8th April |
Lots of grey seals and seabirds including Manx shearwaters, sandwich terns, common terns ,guillemots and razorbills.. |
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5th April |
Grey seals and seabirds. |
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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. |
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| March 2008 | ||||
27th March |
Grey seals and seabirds |
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25th March |
Harbour Porpoises (mother and calf), grey seals and seabirds |
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24th March |
Harbour Porpoise, grey seals and seabirds |
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19th March |
Bottlenose Dolphins 6 adults, 2 juvenilles and a new born calf (great to see) just outside the harbour |
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2nd March |
Grey seals and a variety of seabirds |
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| 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. | |||
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Sightings archive 2007 |
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| 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 | ||||