Corvo 2024, Day Five, Final day of Hurricane Isaac

Hurricane Isaac has now moved north of us and we are now caught up in a complex of North Atlantic low and high pressure 'eddies'  but there is still a bridge of westerlies between us and the US. However things get a bit more messy from here in and the bridge begins to break up but Isaac did bring a few bits in which were found today incuding a Northern Parula, a Bobolink and a Pectoral Sandpiper. (in addition to the Red-eyed Vireo and Lesser Yellowlegs and the Trindade Petrels earlier in the storm).  Both the pale and dark morph Trindade Petrels were seen again and there was also a Great Skua, a few Manx and a juvenile Northern Gannet. Also a Glossy Ibis came in-off and the Grey Plover was still on Black Beach. My list from today HERE - I didn't see the Parula or the Trindades today. 

Overall it's been okay (not the sensation we were hoping for) and the Trindade Petrels (including the one on Flores) are the 14th to 16th records for the Azores and 18th to 20th for the Western Palearctic - so pretty mega for the WP. There are also presumably birds on here still waiting to be found so there could be more discoveries in the next few days especially considering that the westerlies from the US keep up for a day or two more still. 

The only photo so far of the Bobolink found by Paul Dufour in the Middle Fields. Unusually it is a very skulky bird that is hiding in long grass and has only been seen in flight and calling.

Glossy Ibis getting mobbed by the Starlings as it came in off the sea- from the west rather surprisingly

Island Canary

Seawatchers at the Windmill (although it looks like everyone at that moment were looking in every single direction apart from the sea). 

Weather forecast for tomorrow (Ventusky). It's quite a complex series of system, interestingly there is a corridor of southerly winds from the deep south (almost to the actual island of Trindade where these Petrels are coming from) so who knows we might get some more tropical seabirds over the next day or two.