Great Black-backed Gull
Same birding, different day. Light southwesterlies again led to another quiet day where birds comprised a Blackcap, 7 Chaffinches, 185 Goldfinches south, a Great Skua south, 2 Grey Wagtails, a Guillemot, 7 Mediterranean Gulls, a Purple Sandpiper and 5 Turnstone on the jetty, a Red-breasted Merganser, 6 Red-throated Divers, 3 Lesser Redpolls, 5 Redwing, a Rock Pipit, 8 Siskins, 5 Skylarks, 6 Song Thrush and a Swallow.
Ringing: Blackbird 3, Lesser Redpoll 2
Mines of the nationally scarce Phyllocnistis xenia on Poplar suckers