Final tallies from an enjoyable day included three Fulmars, 14 Gannets, five Cormorants, 14 Shags, two Grey Herons, seven Mallards, a Sparrowhawk, two Kestrels, two Peregrines, five Ringed Plovers, five Dunlins, three Whimbrels, 17 Curlews, two Common Sandpipers, 28 Turnstones, four Black-headed Gulls, 29 Kittiwakes, 12 Sandwich Terns, a Guillemot, 100 Swallows, 43 House Martins, nine Robins, a Whinchat, 11 Stonechats, six Wheatears, two Grasshopper Warblers, six Sedge Warblers, four Whitethroats, three Blackcaps, a Wood Warbler, two Chiffchaffs, 115 Willow Warblers, 20 Spotted Flycatchers, a Pied Flycatcher, three Chaffinches and 49 Linnets.
Phwoar! Today's star bird was this beautiful Wood Warbler ringed at the observatory midway through the morning.
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