Other birds logged today included five Manx Shearwaters, 85 Gannets, three Cormorants, seven Common Scoters, a Buzzard, three Kestrels, a Merlin, four Ringed Plovers, four Golden Plovers, 11 Purple Sandpipers, a Dunlin, a Bar-tailed Godwit, two Whimbrels, 22 Curlews, 28 Turnstones, 36 Black-headed Gulls, two Common Gulls, six Common Terns, 170 Razorbills, a Skylark, a Sand Martin, 811 Swallows, five Grey Wagtails, three White Wagtails, 19 alba Wagtails, seven Robins, 12 Stonechats, four Wheatears, two Song Thrushes, three Blackcaps, 11 Chiffchaffs, nine Goldcrests, a Chaffinch, 40 Goldfinches and 46 Linnets.
The juvenile Merlin has been a putting on a super show up on the mountain and down on the South End. At times it has even been observed scurrying across the ground in pursuit of invertebrates!
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