A Manx Shearwater, 63 Gannets, three Grey Herons, a Buzzard, a Kestrel, two Merlins, a Water Rail, a Ringed Plover, five Purple Sandpipers, two Dunlins, a Snipe, four Whimbrel, 48 Curlews, 18 Turnstones, nine Mediterranean Gulls, 23 Black-headed Gulls, two Common Gulls, 12 Robins, four Chiffchaffs, 21 Goldcrests, a Coal tit, a Great tit, three Jackdaws, four Chaffinches, four Goldfinches and four Linnets.
Probably today's most interesting find was this small weevil, Donus zoilus, in the moth trap this morning. The adults eat small legumes such as clovers and trefoils before overwintering and emerging again the following spring.
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