Baby bird time of the year with dispersing youngsters visiting on their juvenile wanderings. Chiffchaff have never bred here but do so as close as Langer Park. Other youngsters visiting included 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker & a Grey Wag. Going past southbound 4 Curlew & an Oyk in limited observation time. 3 Sanderling were on the beach at high tide pm.
First site record of Portland Riband Wave. which is a species first noted in Suffolk only a couple of years ago & may well be contemplating colonisation.
Busy moth traps with several species originating in coniferous woodland turning up that we don't get down here very often including the first
Rhyacionia buoliana for nine years & only the third this century.
Ringing: 3 Blue Tit, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Great Tit, 2 Wren, 1 Chiffchaff, 1 Dunnock.
