Monday, September 10, 2012

Whale-less whale-watching

Myself, Scilly birder Graham Gordon and a bunch of my colleagues spent yesterday bobbing about in the Gulf of Thailand in a failed attempt to catch up with a group of Bryde's Whales that have recently been seen in the northwest corner of the Gulf.  Frustratingly we were told that a group of eight whales had been seen two days before our trip, but we had to make do with views of three different groups of Irrawaddy Dolphins and a nice selection of coastal bird life including Crested, Little, White-winged Black, Whiskered and Common Terns, Little, Indian and Great Cormorants, Whimbrel and Osprey.

Common Tern
Common Tern
White-winged Black Tern
WWBT
WWBT
adult Crested Tern
adult Crested Tern
adult Whiskered Tern

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