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12th Oct

The day began with clear skies and fresh SSE winds but cloud and rain arrived from midday. Most of the observations came from the sea with over 10.5 hours of watching producing a first-year Sabine's Gull, two Long-tailed Skuas, a Puffin, a Great Northern Diver, a Leach's Petrel, five Sooty Shearwaters and a Shag of note and 1250 Brent Geese, 99 Wigeon, two Pintail, six Teal, four Tufted Ducks, 168 Common Scoters, four Snipe, 33 Little Gulls, 835 Kittiwakes, four Mediterranean Gulls, a Caspian Gull, 19 Arctic Skuas, 2658 Razorbills and 1208 Gannets as back-up.

Very quiet on the land with just two Bramblings and two Siskins of note.

Four Porpoises and two Grey Seals were feeding offshore and a Common Pipistrelle was flying around the Observatory building in the evening.

The moth traps caught a Convolvulus Hawkmoth, two Small Mottled Willows and a Palpita vitrealis of note.