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31st Oct

A strong southerly wind resulted in some good seawatching with a good variety of rarer species and some high numbers. Coverage for most of the day produced two White-fronted Geese, two Velvet Scoters, three Snipe, 18 Little Gulls, eight Mediterranean Gulls, an Arctic Tern, three Great Skuas, a Puffin, a Little Auk, a Great Northern Diver, a "petrel sp", two Sooty Shearwaters and a Manx Shearwater. Numbers were provided by 23 Shelducks, 31 Sandwich Terns, 779 Kittiwakes, 2956 Razorbills, 291 Guillemots, 1927 "auks sp" and 726 Gannets. Two Yellow-legged Gulls were also present. Good numbers of birds also came in off including 36 Swallows, 2086 Starlings, 86 Chaffinches and three Bramblings and five Firecrests were seen in the bushes.

Two Porpoises and two Grey Seals were feeding offshore and a Brown Hare was seen on the land.

Tuna were seen jumping on a couple of occasions.