Skua season definitely here!!

todays cruise took place in glorious sunshine - sunscreen a must!! (where was this weather when the puffins were here??). It was hard work at times, gannets plunge diving all around as we started searching, arctic skua flew past, more guillemots - and a black one seen by a few lucky folk, searched and searched but had vanished............

 

 

and then at about 11.15 it got exciting, trying to capture the Scottish Fisheries plane that buzzed us...

 

 

when  a cry from the front of Skua had all lenses rapidly refocusing....

 

and the best views of Pomarine Skua I have had for a long long time - it stayed with the boat, obliged by circling so that everyone got superb views, sat, chased and finally disappeared towards the Headland and Bempton Cliffs....

 

 

 

finally a Bonxie...

 

 

and finished by watching the Flamborough Inshore Lifeboat bringing home a jetskier...