Irish Sea. 
Ocean voyage. Montreal to Liverpool.
1911.
June 24 
to July 1.
(No 8)

Birds seen in Irish Sea.
Herring Gulls
Gliding far on set wings
Lesser Black-backed Gulls, Mew Gulls, Gannets.
Manx Shearwaters.

  July 1. When I awoke, not long after sunrise, the wild, musical
clamor of Herring Gulls came to my ears from close about the ship.
Swarms of them were following her wake when I came on deck at 8.30
to find the northern shores of Ireland and the southern coasts of Scotland 
in plain view to the right and left. They kept after us all day
long, in varying numbers, gliding for hundreds of yards at a time on
set wings with the strong west wind striking them nearly abeam.
One was often to be seen perched on a round ball that tipped
one of our masts where it would rest for many minutes at a time.
With the Herring Gulls were two or three Lesser Black-backs and (I think)
a very few Mew Gulls. I saw during the day only 3 Gannets & but
the same number of Manx Shearwaters. Altogether the bird life of
this portion of the Irish Sea was far less rich than I had anticipated
after my experience with the more southern portion in August (4) 1909.
Literally no Puffins, Murres, Auks or Cormorants were seen to-day
Indeed the birds above named were all that I noticed.