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15th Oct

Fairly quiet on the land with 30 Chiffchaffs, just two Blackcaps, 13 Song Thrushes and a Wheatear but it was busier with birds passing overhead including 31 Skylarks, 150 Swallows, 680 Starlings, two Grey Wagtails, 124 Meadow Pipits, three Rock Pipits, 242 Chaffinches, 503 Goldfinches and 55 Siskins. The sea produced 11 Sanderling, 52 Dunlin, 157 Kittiwakes, four Little Gulls, 22 Mediterranean Gulls, seven Arctic Skuas, 1009 Razorbills, a Sooty Shearwater and 302 Gannets passing west, a party of five Eider going east and a first-year Yellow-legged Gull and nine Red-throated Divers feeding offshore.

Three Porpoises and a Grey Seal were feeding offshore.

A Western Conifer Seed Bug was found in the moth traps.

Western Conifer Seed Bug Leptoglossus occidentalis   Dungeness   15th October 2026


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