Grass Snake!

Young Grass Snake

This mornings wander around the trapping area and Long Pits with AJG & JTM again found no new migrants apart from a few Swifts and Swallows. The highlight was without doubt a lovely baby Grass Snake.

Most of the rest of the day was taken up with mundane domestic stuff, but I did manage to get down to the fishing boats for a couple of hours this afternoon.

The Gulls were having a bit of a feeding frenzy on very small fry at the fishing boats

 1st summer Mediterranean Gull

14.00-16.00 at the fishing boats with AJG
Great-crested Grebe: 13 around
Fulmar: 1W
Gannet:12E  44W
Cormorant: 7 around
Arctic Skua: 1E L/P
Kittiwake: 1E
Mediterranean Gull: 3 around
Sandwich tern: 23W
Common Tern: 12 around
Auk sp: 2E.  1W
Swallow: 7 in
Harbour Porpoise: 3+
Common Seal: 1

2nd summer Mediterranean Gull

Barred Red (green form prasinaria)

The highlights of an otherwise poor catch in the moth trap were a Barred Red and a Treble Lines