A
brace of Crossbills, a male and a
female, put in a brief appearance at The Plantation in the morning. The male
even burst into song at the tops of the pines.
Whilst
ringing and monitoring seabirds on the East Side an attempt was made to play Storm Petrel tape into some of the
crevices nearby. It proved to be a huge success with 15 individual responses.
Considering the tiny area checked one can only imagine how many are hiding in
the debris on the whole of the East Side. The last full census was in 2001 and
well overdue.
A good
count of 84 Gannets were at sea, as
were one Black-headed Gull and two Sandwich Terns, whilst counts inland total to one Grey Heron, two Ringed
Plovers, one Collared Dove, and 26 Choughs.
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