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Saturday, 3 October 2026
Three species of dolphin, four species of shearwater off Cape St. Vincent
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Another amazing trip out into the open Atlantic Ocean off Cape St Vincent with mar limitado. We saw about 90 dolphins from three ...
Friday, 2 October 2026
The floodgates open at Sagres
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It all kicked off today as migrants flooded in to south west Portugal. I started at Ponta da Atalaia in Sagres where there had cl...
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Riding the waves with Wilsons petrels
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This morning I joined Mar llimitado again for a pelagic out of Sagres into the Atlantic ocean. The difference today, there was a moder...
An improved raptor passage at Carbonosa
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My daily routine now includes an afternoon visit to Carbonosa watch point. It's not been as good as it could have been but even so ...
Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Awesome Pallid Harrier
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Perseverance pays off. I'd seen the juvenile pallid harrier at Vale Santo on two previous occasions and they were both at be...
Tuesday, 29 September 2026
Awesome saker
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So the saker that has been about for the past few days at Vale Santo is an escape. It has jesses. It was inevitable really, there...
Monday, 28 September 2026
A day at Cabronosa
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I'm told by local birders that raptor migration is painfully slow so far this year which is typical of my luck, I'm not ...
Dotterel again at Vale Santo
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The dotterel were still at Vale Santo this morning, though I couldn't find them on a return visit this afternoon.
Sunday, 27 September 2026
Dotterel, saker and pallid harrier at Vale Santo
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While I was at Cabranosa I got some advice from local birder Simon Wates on where too look for dotterel nearby and was delighted ...
Cabranosa migration watch point
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Cabranosa migration watch point is a small wooded hill a few miles north of Cape St Vincent at the south west extremity of Europe...
Striped dolphins on an impressive palagic from Sagres
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It's not very often that I get a new species of cetacean anywhere these days, so I was delighted when we unexpectedly came ac...
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