26/9/2015: Pelágic of the great list

Monday, September 28, 2015

26/9/2015: Pelágic of the great list

The Saturday 26 the time did not paint well, the fog was dense, humid. Our hope was in that it raised advanced the morning.

We go out dawning, by the estuary only the sound of the engine of the ship broke the monotonía grey, still like this did not lose the illusion.

¿What would occur once past Sálvora?

Left backwards the archipelago that only intuíamos because it hid it the dense fog, this dissipated a bit and did apparition the Larus michahellis and fuscus that were the avanzadilla of the other birds, followed him the Morus bassanus, the Puffinus gravis that us deleitaron with his elegant flight, Stercorarius skua, Puffinus griseus and the first Hidrobates pelagicus. Also Puffinus mauretanicus, Puffinus puffinus, Sterna hirundo and Sterna sandvicensis.

Once thrown by embroiders it the “chum” they began to gather quite a lot of seagulls, especially shady, that with his frenesí attracted to the Stercorarius skua, parasiticus and pomarinus, but also to the Morus bassanus, Larus Sabine, three Oceanites oceanicus, sternidae, procelaridae, Phalaropus fulicarius, etc.

Like curious appointments, to quite a lot of miles naúticas of the coast, a Motacilla alba exhausted by the trip tried to pose in the ship to rest and a Calidris alpina and two Ardea cinerea in migration.

Besides a grupito of twelve Mola mola with curious behaviour, as ladeaban while the seagulls them picoteaban the body for desparasitar.

The dolphins were the common dolphins in small groupings those that observe, except a pack of some twenty copies.

And already near of the port in the bateas of mussel, Phalacrocorax aristotelis and carbo, Larus marinus and scolopacidae varied put the full stop to a travesía between a sea of fog but full of animals that animals that encouraged the landscape.

Here below is the detailed list of species, with highlights in bold and approximate numbers in italics: