Another day at sea, sailing north towards Uruguay resulted in a superb shearwater spectacle as we estimated 1450+ Great Shearwaters, 200+ Sooty Shearwaters and at least 25 Manx Shearwaters. Many of these were sat on the water just in front of the ship and we could hear the ‘pitter patter’ of their little feet as they struggled to take off and move away!
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| Great Shearwater |
We could often look right down on them and could literally see every feather detail. There was also 26 Black-browed Albatross, 73 Magellanic Penguins and 8 White-chinned Petrels as well.
We were looking all day for Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross and had to wait until late in the day to finally nail one, but we were all ecstatic with it.
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| Atlantic Yellow-nosed Albatross |
Just before getting this much-wanted species, we’d had a weird albie that we initially called as yellow-nosed but realised that it was much too long winged and wondered if it was a Salvin’s, which shouldn’t really be in the Atlantic Ocean.
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| Mystery Albatross south of Montevideo |
I’m still not sure on it, but wondering if it’s an immature White-capped Albatross….?
Anyway, that’s all for today!
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