Weather: ESE force 4 cloudy rain later
Another fairly quiet day but with a decent scattering of migrants. Five Chiffchaffs and a Gioldcrest were here with a Grey Wagtail and a Reed Bunting and later a Spotted Flycatcher showed up. Three Wheatears as usual posed well enough in their natural perching places.
Swallows started slowly but 30 passed through in the day, also 15 House Martins and a few Meadow Pipits.
The highlight of the sea watch were 4 Arctic Skua, they have been distinctly scarce this year, also on the sea were 11 Gannets, 2 Guillemots, 350 Sandwich Terns and 85 Common Terns, 2 close Common Scoter and 80 others out to sea, and a single summer plumaged Red-throated Diver.
Six Shelduck, the pair of Eider and the 2 Brents were around the islands. The pick of the waders was another Common Sandpiper. Obviously the 6,000 Oystercatchers are the most numerous of the waders but others included 8 Bar-tailed Godwit, 120 Ringed Plover, 14 Grey Plover and 36 Turnstone. For once the 5 Grey Herons outnumbered the Little Egrets present. Red Admirals (16) were again the majority of butterflies, but there were 6 Large Whites, 2 Small Tortoiseshells and a Comma.
The rain set in in the middle of the afternoon.
Ringed: 2 Chiffchaffs, 2 Robins.
Photos SRW
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