Manchester Birding Forum

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"Pete Berry said Sun Aug 24 2:26 PM, 2025. A pal of mine organised a pelagic off Portpatrick this past Friday. We went out to the drop off approx half way between England and Northern Ireland and spent a few hours chumming. In total we saw 20 Storm Petrel (unfortunately none were Wilsons) as all were seen well enough to ID them. We also had plenty of Gannets, Manx Shearwaters, Guillemots and Razorbills mostly with young birds in tow and up to 20 Fulmar right next to the boat. Surprise of the day was 3 juvenile Mediterranean Gulls hanging about and feeding on the chum 5 other species of gull and Kittiwakes were also seen. Common, Arctic and Sandwich".  https://manchesterbirding.activeboard.com/t13255103/dumfries-and-galloway/?page=1#:~:text=pete%20berry%20said,Arctic%20and%20Sandwich