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13th Apr

Just under eight hours of seawatching produced a Velvet Scoter, 127 Common Scoters, four Red-breasted Mergansers, two Avocets, a Common Sandpiper, 13 Mediterranean Gulls, a Great Skua and five Arctic Skuas.  A Jack Snipe and three Common Snipe, nine Willow Warblers, 23 Chiffchaffs, six Sedge Warblers, nine Blackcaps, eight Lesser Whitethroats, 36 Common Whitethroats, a Firecrest, four Song Thrushes, a Yellow Wagtail, a Rock Pipit, 13 Siskins and 16 Reed Buntings were seen on the land.

Twenty-two Porpoises were feeding offshore and two Brown Hares were seen in the Desert.

The Large Tortoiseshell was seen again at the Long Pits.