Barolo Shearwater - Blast From The Past Finds

Barolo Shearwater (though I still habitually refer to them as Little Shear) is one of those fantastic stable, old school rarities that people crave for their finds lists. I've been lucky enough to find two of them over the years. It's an incredible thrill, when after 100s of hours looking through thousands upon thousands of Manxies you suddenly see these silvery little gems. August 28th, 2005 On the Sunday 28th of August I had planned on sleeping in after finding my first Bee-eater in Ireland the previous evening, However, after receiving a text stating that the winds had picked up for Galley Head, a horrible fear of being 'gripped off' descended on me and I dashed down to Galley — just in case. I had expected to find several birders already there, but arrived to a barren headland. I could see that passage was actually very good, with good numbers of Manx Shearwaters moving through, together with 3 Great Shearwaters and 8 Sooty Shearwaters, all within 15 minutes of obs...