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November 2007
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Sunday 25th
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18 grey seals in 3 different locations including a healthy number of this season's pups, a variety of seabirds and a chough.
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Saturday 24th
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We finally got to run a trip today after cancelling most of our November trips because of high winds and rough seas. Today we saw grey seals including 2 immatures basking on the rocks and seabirds in choppy conditions.
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Monday 12th
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seabirds, lots of grey seals including 3 of this years pups basking on the rocks.
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October 2007
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26th October
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seabirds, lots of grey seals basking on rocks
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25th October
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grey seals and seabirds including sabine's gulls, a great skua , an arctic skua and a pomarine skua
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19th October
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grey seal and seabirds
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18th October
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grey seals, choughs, seabirds, including great skua
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14th October
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minke whale, lots of harbour porpoises, ocean sunfish, grey seal, seabirds including sooty shearwater and sabine's gull
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13th October
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juvenile minke whale, lots of harbour porpoises, grey seals, seabirds including a great skua chasing gannets, kingfishers in the harbour .
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10th October
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harbour porpoises, grey seals and seabirds including great skua
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6th October
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grey seals, seabirds, choughs and a kestrel 1 mile offshore
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4th October
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harbour porpoises, grey seals and seabirds
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2nd October
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grey seals, ocean sunfish, seabirds including great skuas
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September 2007
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29th September |
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common dolphins, harbour porpoises, grey seals and seabirds
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28th September |
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Filming again today and we saw grey seals and seabirds again.
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27th September |
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During seal filming with the BBC Natural History Dept. we saw choughs, peregrine falcons, seabirds and of course lots of grey seals including some pups born in the last few weeks.
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22nd September |
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common dolphins, harbour porpoises, ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds including a sooty shearwater, great skua and pomarine skua
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18th September |
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lots of basking sharks, grey seals, seabirds including mediterranean gulls and a grey phalarope (had to look this one up)
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17th September |
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Large pod of Risso's dolphins, basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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15th September |
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bottlenose dolphin ("Georges" the notoriously extrovert and amorous dolphin!), lots of harbour porpoises, lots of basking sharks, several ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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14th September |
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minke whales, harbour porpoises, basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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12th September |
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harbour porpoises, lots of basking sharks, ocean sunfish, grey seals (including two pups) and seabirds
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11th September |
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harbour porpoises, basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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9th September |
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common dolphins, risso's dolphins, basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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8th September |
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large pods of common dolphins, risso's dolphins, harbour porpoises, basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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7th September |
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harbour porpoises, ocean sunfish, basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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6th September |
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large pod of Risso's dolphins (including some acrobatic calves), lots of feeding porpoises, basking sharks, skipping ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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5th September |
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harbour porpoises, basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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4th September |
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common dolphins, harbour porpoises, lots of basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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3rd September |
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harbour porpoise, lots of basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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2nd September |
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minke whale, harbour porpoises, common dolphins, lots of basking sharks and seabirds
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1st September |
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grey seals, lots of basking sharks, ocean sunfish and seabirds
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August 2007
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31st August |
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harbour porpoises, grey seals, lots of basking sharks, ocean sunfish and seabirds
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30th August |
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minke whale, harbour porpoises, grey seals, lots of basking sharks and seabirds
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29th August |
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harbour porpoise, grey seals, basking sharks and seabirds
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28th August |
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grey seals, basking sharks, ocean sunfish and seabirds
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27th August |
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grey seals, lots of basking sharks, ocean sunfish and seabirds
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26th August |
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bottlenose dolphin, grey seals, lots of basking sharks, ocean sunfish and seabirds
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25th August |
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grey seals, lots of basking sharks, ocean sunfish and seabirds
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24th August |
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Minke whale, harbour porpoises, loads of basking sharks, ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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23rd August |
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Bottlenose dolphin, harbour porpoises, basking shark, ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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22nd August |
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Harbour porpoises, grey seals, and seabirds
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20th August |
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It's been too rough to go out for the last few days but there has been some good wildlife in our area. A minke whale, common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins basking sharks and a wide variety of seabirds have all been spotted from the cliffs along our usual routes.
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17th August |
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Lots of basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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16th August |
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Lots of basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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13th August |
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Seals, seabirds, crabs and lobsters. There was also a large pod of common dolphins just west of Land's End unfortunately it was too rough for us to go that far west today.
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12th August |
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ocean sunfish, seals and seabirds
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11th August |
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Harbour porpoise, basking shark, grey seals, seabirds and compass jellyfish
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10th August |
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Harbour porpoises including one dead one unfortunately, basking shark, grey seals, and seabirds including mediterranean shearwaters
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9th August |
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Lots of harbour porpoises, basking sharks, sunfish, grey seals, compass jelly fish and seabirds including mediterranean shearwaters
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8th August |
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basking sharks, sunfish, seabirds, grey seals including a big bull seal wrestling with a 3-ft eel before tearing chunks off it! Very impressive.
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7th August |
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basking sharks, grey seals, seabirds including hundreds of Manx shearwaters and diving gannets
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6th August |
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harbour porpoise, basking sharks (including one an estimated size of 9-10 metres - very large indeed!), grey seals, seabirds
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5th August |
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ocean sunfish, seals and seabirds
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4th August |
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seals and seabirds
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3rd August |
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ocean sunfish, basking shark, seals and seabirds
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2nd August |
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seals and seabirds including sooty shearwater
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1st August |
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harbour porpoise, basking sharks (20+), grey seals (about 20), ocean sunfish, seabirds particularly gannets
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July 2007
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31st July |
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Harbour porpoises, basking sharks, ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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30th July |
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Lots of basking sharks (30+), ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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29th July |
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8 juvenile common dolphins feeding and playing, large numbers of basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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28th July |
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bottlenose dolphins (pod of 10 individuals including juveniles), basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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24th July |
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grey seals and seabirds
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21st July |
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basking sharks , ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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20th July |
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harbour porpoises, ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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19th July |
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harbour porpoise, grey seals and seabirds (lots of storm petrels)
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18th July |
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common dolphins, ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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14th July |
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grey seals and seabirds
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12th July |
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ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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11th July |
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ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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10th July |
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harbour porpoise, grey seals and seabirds
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8th July |
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harbour porpoises, grey seals and seabirds
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7th July |
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grey seals and seabirds (including puffin and storm petrels)
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6th July |
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The wind was still blowing so we could only do hour trips today but the sightings were good: bottlenose dolphins, grey seals and seabirds
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4th July |
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The weather has been too rough to go out for the last few days but I spotted 6 bottlenose dolphins while surfing at the weekend.
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June 2007
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28th June |
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grey seals and seabirds
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27th June |
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grey seals and seabirds
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26th June |
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grey seals and seabirds
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24th June |
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basking shark, grey seals, juvenille sharks feeding on mackerel in a frenzy and seabirds
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23rd June |
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basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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22nd June |
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basking shark, grey seals and seabirds including lots of storm petrels
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17th June |
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risso's dolphins, ocean sunfish, grey seals and seabirds
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13th June |
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seabirds!
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10th June |
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harbour porpoises, basking sharks (lots), grey seals and seabirds
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9th June |
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basking sharks (lots), grey seals and seabirds
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8th June |
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ocean sunfish, basking sharks (lots), harbour porpoises, grey seals, sooty shearwater and seabirds
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6th June |
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basking sharks (lots), grey seals, puffin and seabirds
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5th June |
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common dolphins (50+), harbour porpoises, basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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3rd June |
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grey seals and seabirds
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1st June |
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basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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May 2007
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31st May |
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minke whale, grey seals and seabirds
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29th May |
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grey seals and seabirds
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28th May |
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harbour porpoises, grey seals and seabirds
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26th May |
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harbour porpoises, grey seals and seabirds
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20th May |
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bottlenose dolphins, grey seals and seabirds
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5th May |
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basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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April 2007
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28th April |
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basking sharks, grey seals and seabirds
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22nd April |
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grey seals and seabirds
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21st April |
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basking shark, grey seals and seabirds
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19th April |
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bottlenose dolphins, basking shark, grey seals and seabirds
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15th April |
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bottlenose dolphins (while waiting for divers)
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14th April |
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bottlenose dolphins, basking shark, grey seals, puffins and seabirds
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13th April |
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bottlenose dolphins, grey seals and seabirds
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11th April |
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harbour porpoise, grey seals and seabirds
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10th April |
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bottlenose dolphins, grey seals and seabirds
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9th April |
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bottlenose dolphins, grey seals and seabirds
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8th April |
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harbour porpoises, grey seals and seabirds
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7th April |
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bottlenose dolphins, harbour porpoises, grey seals and seabirds
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March 2007
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21st March |
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bottlenose dolphins, grey seals and seabirds
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February 2007
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17th February |
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grey seals and seabirds
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Click here to see a map of our cetacean (whale, dolphin and porpoise) sightings in 2007 |
