Some 23,530 Manx Shearwaters were counted in 2 hours flying west out of the Minch off the north coast of Tiree from first light on 8 August 2016. This is the largest passage count for the species ever recorded on the island and may possibly be the highest yet recorded in Scotland! The movements of a deep depression from the Atlantic created perfect conditions for a bumper count with strong to gale-force winds switching from SSE late on 6 August, to SW on 7 August, to W that night and finally to NW on the early morning of 8 August - perfect for funneling huge numbers of seabirds against the north coast of Coll and then Tiree as they headed back out of the Minch at dawn. Other birds caught up in the movement included 272 Gannets, 89 Fulmars, 32 Kittiwakes and smaller numbers of Great Skuas, Storm Petrels, auks and a single Pomarine Skua. The Manx Shearwaters were probably mostly from the nearby island of Rum, which holds the largest breeding colony of this species in the world.