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17th Apr

Very small numbers of birds on the land but they did include four Buzzardsa Jay17 Chiffchaffs, six Sedge Warblers, five Lesser Whitethroats, two Yellow Wagtails, a female Bullfinch and a Serin over the Long Pits of note. Nearly eight hours of seawatching produced two Egyptian Geese, four Velvet Scoters, 655 Common Scoters, eight Whimbrel, 260 Bar-tailed Godwits, 44 Little Gulls, five Mediterranean Gulls and nine Arctic Skuas.

Twelve Porpoise and two Grey Seals were seen offshore.

A Grizzled Skipper and a Brimstone were seen. The rare beetle Hister quadrimaculatus was found - a Dungeness speciality while a search for hymenoptera produced an Andrena pilipes which may well be a new species for the area and two Andrena vaga.