No boat to Skomer

On Sunday 30th June, I got up early and despite getting there for 8am, the car park was already almost full and joined a long queue, the first time I ever I literally missed the boat to Skomer, very, very disappointing. I did however get a boat trip around the island. Wonderful to see the first Gannets, the the auks, a razorbill, then 2 Guillemots then quite literally hundreds of Puffins in rafts on the water and literally dotted all around the greener grassy areas of the island, wonderful to see again (although it would have been better if I could seen them on land at Skomer). Calling Chough revealed 1 Chough flying over the cliff, several Fulmars seen on cliffs and at the end around 3 seen on the sea that flew by too. A walk around Marloes deer park revealed a family of 3 Stonechat, male female and youngster. A presumed Dark Green Fritillary butterfly was flying around but never settled, a female Common Blue seen plus an Emperor Dragonfly that flew down a path and briefly settled but didn't pose at all for the camera. Finally 5 Linnets were seen on gorse near the path on the walk back. As we disembarked up the steps a pair of Rock Pipits were very active along the cliff, the rocks and regularly perching on the hand rails and I managed to get some nice consolation shots of them at least.