Joe Pender Wildlife Photography

Monday, 11 August 2014

Hurricane Bertha

Manx
Cory Shearwater

Great Shearwater

Wilsons Storm Petrel

European Storm Petrel
On sunday's pelagic we set off on another pelagic with the winds still blowing over 30 knots after Hurricane Bertha past over us , we stopped about 3 miles south of St Marys and started drifting and chumming it wasn't long before we logged the 1st great shearwater of the day, we continued drifting and ended up 7 miles south of St Marys  by this time we had seen 7 more great shearwaters ,10 Cory Shearwaters , 1 Wilson's petrel over c200 storm petrels and c150 manx shearwaters . 

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