European Storm Petrel All photos in this blog are curtesy of my good birding pal Nick. To put it mildly, my sea bird list is rubbish! So when I heard my good friends Nick and Anne were planning to do an all-day Pelagic from Falmouth I asked if I could join them. The trip was run by AK Wildlife cruises with whom Nick and Anne had had a very good day with last September. With a 10:30 boat departure we had arranged to stay the previous night in the Heston Premier Inn some 25 minutes’ drive from Falmouth. I had a family event to attend at lunch time and so departed for Cornwall around 14:00. As the drive progressed the weather got worse and worse, very stormy with torrential rain and very little visibility which did not bode well for a trip in a small boat far out to sea! We met in the pub adjacent to the Premier Inn for dinner, a 5 out of 10 meal which seems to be the standard these days for pub food and sorted out logistics for the next day. Overnight the stormy weath...
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