Finding new species is getting a lot harder, so I've really got to keep concentrating and take any opportunities that happen along. As the leaves have started to fall from the trees along the entrance road there is now a much better view of the adjacent farmland and because of this I was able to see dozens of field pansies.
I have spent many hours sea-watching during the last couple of weeks in the hope of adding one or two of the rarer seabirds such as sabine's gull or leach's petrel to my list, but all I managed was a dab that really didn't want to be swallowed by a cormorant! Frustratingly there have been lots of unidentifiable small silver fish jumping from the sea - I must find a local fisherman.
My third species came thanks to Autumnwatch - last week they showed a shell covered with small holes. I have seen dozens along the beach like this and was very pleased to find out that the holes were caused by boring sponges - thanks Chris and Michaela, you've crept my total up to 912!
Ray Kimber.