Weather: E 0/1
The heat wave continues with fires sighted from Hilbre towards Grange hill.
Slightly more passage movement this morning with 3 Willow Warblers, a Wheatear, a few Swallows and 4 Sand Martins noticed. Butterflies also came in numbers with a Wall, 3 Common Blues, 2 Painted Ladies and a spectacular appearance of about 150 Red Admirals, these can often arrive like this from the sea
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| Red Admiral |
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| Painted Lady |
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| Painted Lady |
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| Wall Brown |
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| Small Tortoiseshell |
Not so impressive to the average person but very important was the identification this morning of a new micro moth species for Hilbre..
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| Catoptria margaritella |
Others on the moth list........
A good count of 195 Ringed Plover was made, there were 2 Whimbrel, 2 Sanderling and a visiting adult Black-tailed Godwit. Twenty six Turnstone were counted.
One of our resident species that doesn't get much coverage are the small number of Wrens that let us know they are here.
A seal count of 120 was made at low tide first thing this morning.
Photos BT + Mike Roberts, CJW
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