A long, but very productive day at the park today (from before 10am till almost 5pm). Saw my 100th species at the park - Jay (behind the car park) - within a few minutes of arriving. Bumped into Fishy and had a wee wander round after a spot of vis-migging again (arrived a bit late for a worthwhile attempt but still managed a few Skylark flocks and a couple of other things). When Fishy left I'd seen around 40 species, so I decided to hang around and try and bump the total up to beat my personal best of 42 species. Ended up with 51 (and was missing Dunlin and Great Tit of the regularly seen species and a few less regular species seen yesterday - so 50 could be beaten). Also have one to query.
Species seen - Bar Tailed Godwit (low double figures), Blackbird, Black Tailed Godwit (10 with the gulls at the bathing "pool" in the burn), Blue Tit, Buzzard, Carrion Crow, Chaffinch, Chiffchaff (still a few around), Coal Tit, Common Gull, Cormorant, Curlew, Dipper (just 1 today), Dunnock, Goldcrest, Goldfinch (flock mobbing Kestrel), Great Black Backed Gull, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Greenfinch (flock of around 10 birds by car park), Grey Heron, Grey Wagtail (at least 4), Herring Gull, Jackdaw, Jay, Kestrel (hunting around the hill), Lesser Black Backed Gull (just 1), Lesser Redpoll (large flock of 25-30 birds), Linnet (1 with Goldfinch flock), Little Grebe, Long tailed Tit (2 family groups), Mallard, Meadow Pipit, Mistle Thrush (1 on wires east of car park), Mute Swan, Oystercatcher, Pied Wagtail, Pink Footed Goose, Redshank, Robin, Feral Pigeon, Rook, Siskin, Skylark, Song Thrush, Sparrowhawk, Starling, Swallow, Teal, Turnstone (2 on pipe), Woodpigeon, Wren.
Also Common Darter dragonfly and Painted Lady, Red Admiral and Small Tortoiseshell butterflies (plus an unidentified orange-ish butterfly that I didn't get a good look at, but was either a Painted Lady or possibly a Comma - the former probably the more likely).
Spoke to a lady in the park who showed me a photo she'd taken of a caterpillar a few weeks ago in the rain. It was brown and had large eye markings. Checking an app on my phone (after a wee bit of googling - and a hunch based on memory) it may well be an Elephant Hawk Moth caterpillar.