Twelve Wilson’s Petrels were at Ross Ringing Station this morning on a south easterly wind. (John N Murphy)
Sunday 26th July 2026
A four hour seawatch at Black Head this morning produced three Cory’s Shearwater, two Sooty Shearwater, six Puffin and around 2000 Manx Shearwater per hour.(Paul Troake)
At the Bridges of Ross between 05.30-16.30 there were six Wilson’s Storm Petrel, one Leach’s Petrel, 30 Storm Petrel, 56 Cory’s Shearwater, nine Great Shearwater, 28 Sooty Shearwater and two Great Skua.(N.T. Keogh, J. Willian’s, C. ten Bohmer, S. Holland, A.G. Kelly, P. Moore, M. Shorten, H. Hussey)
Saturday 25th July 2026
Joint tallies from Bridges of Ross and Ross Ringing Station today (6am-6pm). There were 28 Wilson’s Petrels, 80 European Storm Petel, 550 Cory’s Shearwater, 120 Great Shearwater, 33 Sooty Shearwater, one Arctic Skua, one ‘Blue’ Fulmar, 80 Puffins. Steady passage of Manx all day. (AGK, BMcC, CC, JP, PP, GM, JNM)





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