Weather: SE force 1/2 sunny
It was warm and sunny with very little wind but a bigish tide. There was some gentle migration going on for most of the day, a couple of Goldcrests, a Chiffchaff and 2 Wheatears were best but there were 2 Swallows, 6 Pied and 3 White Wagtails, 5 Skylarks, a Reed Bunting and 7 Robins, (we seem to have had a lot of them recently). Two of the 7 Robins got ringed, as did the Chiffchaff and a Wren.
Brent Geese are up to 22 birds now, and 85 Pinkfooted Geese flew in the estuary. also 50 Shelduck were present and 2 Common Scoter on the sea. All the usual waders were there including 7,600 Oystercatchers, 160 Curlew, 112 Dunlin, 60 Turnestone, 56 Ringed Plover and 58 Redshank. Two Sandwich Terns were the only 'sea' birds. Nine Little Egrets and 1 Grey Heron fed on the shore. On the ebb tide 18 Sanderlings were on the esat hoyle and 2 Great Crested Grebes were in the gutter. Later in the afternoon a Grey Phalarope was found feeding on the east hoyle bank (on the edge of our recording area). Found by Tim kinch it is one of quite a few records in the irish sea following the gales last week.
An interesting looking insect which has now been classified as one of the colourful males of an Icheumonid wasp species.
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