{"id":485,"date":"2010-05-28T12:37:13","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T10:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/sheer-seawatching\/"},"modified":"2010-05-28T12:37:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T10:37:13","slug":"sheer-seawatching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/birds-in-spain\/sheer-seawatching\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheer seawatching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/balearicshwtr.jpg\" title=\"Balearic Shearwater Puffinus mauretanicus\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/balearicsteve21.jpg\" alt=\"Balearic Shearwater, Puffinus mauretanicus\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<em>Balearic Shearwater, Puffinus mauretanicus.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/pomarinuserik.jpg\" alt=\"Pomarine Skua Stercoraius pomarinus in the Mediterranean Sea\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Pomarine Skua, Stercorarius pomarinus. Photo by Erik.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/griseustoni2.jpg\" alt=\"Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Sooty Shearwater, Puffinus griseus. Photo by Toni Boyer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/griseustoni1.jpg\" alt=\"Sooty Shearwater Puffinus griseus in the Mediterranean Sea\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Sooty Shearwater, Puffinus griseus. Photo by Toni Boyer.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">All of the photos here were taken on the 12th and 14th May during a training course &#8220;Identification of Marine Birds of Catalonia&#8221; for the rural agents of Catalonia. Our vessel sailed from the port of Tarragona and headed straight out to sea; on board were 17 rural agents, the skipper, first mate and myself (teacher).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/ausmarines2.jpg\" alt=\"Marine birds course at Tarragona\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Seawatching off Tarragona on a sunny day <\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We didn&#8217;t really know what to expect; some shearwaters, gulls and the odd skua or two, perhaps. In fact we had a lot more than we dared hope for, including a rarity for Catalonia in the shape of a Sooty Shearwater &#8211; up to 2008 there had only been 12 records of this species off the Catalan coast.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">We also enjoyed great views of numerous Balearic and Mediterranean Shearwaters, 2 Pomarine Skuas, a Great Skua, an Arctic Skua, a single Storm Petrel, Audouin&#8217;s, Lesser Black-backed, Yellow-legged and Mediterranean Gulls and, what for most was the star of the day, a Fin Whale <em>Balaenoptera physalus<\/em>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/audouinserik.jpg\" alt=\"Audouin\u2019s Gull Larus audouinii\" \/>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Audouin&#8217;s Gull, Larus audouinii. Photo by Erik.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/gskua.jpg\" alt=\"Great Skua, Stercorarius skua.\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Great Skua, Stercorarius skua.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That was all on Wednesday 12th May. What would Friday 14th May bring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Balearic Shearwater, Puffinus mauretanicus. Pomarine Skua, Stercorarius pomarinus. Photo by Erik.\u00a0 Sooty Shearwater, Puffinus griseus. Photo by Toni Boyer. Sooty Shearwater, Puffinus griseus. Photo by Toni Boyer.\u00a0 All of the photos here were taken on the 12th and 14th May during a training course &#8220;Identification of Marine Birds of Catalonia&#8221; for the rural agents of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-in-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7I752-7P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdinginspain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}