I spent most of today walking with family members around the NTS St Abb's Head reserve. I hadn't visited properly for many years, and was pleasantly surprised by the botanical and entomological diversity on show. It was a little late in the year for the best birdwatching (although plenty of Kittiwakes and a few Guillemots, Shags and Fulmars were attending cliff nests). Gannets were also on the cliffs but I was unable to make out any unfledged young. Large flocks of Linnets and Starlings suggested that those two species had had good breeding seasons. Three juvenile Kestrels were also presumably locally-raised. House Martins appeared to be visiting nests on the cliffs and other interesting birds included Wheatear, Meadow Pipit, Yellowhammer, Raven and Great Black-backed Gull. Lepidoptera I was able to identify consisted of Meadow Brown, Ringlet, Small Skipper. A few whites and a single Burnet-moth were "ones that got away". Flowering plants of note were Common Restharrow and Common Rock-rose.