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Saturday 4th August 2012

Star of the show this morning was a Wood Warbler which performed well despite evading capture. Half a dozen Willow Warblers were ringed along with a few juvenile Blackbirds, Linnets and a Whitethroat. Between rain shower this morning over 100 Swifts moved through, along with 10 Oyks, 12 Grey Plover, 7 Whimbrel, 15 Common Scoter, a Shelduck, Curlew, Dunlin, 5 Barwits and 14 Sand Martin. Invertebrates included Southern and Migrant Hawkers, 3 Lesser Cockroach in the moth traps and a Ground Lackey, the latter being a Nationally Scarce A species.