Common Blue (Mythimna straminea).
Warm with a slight SSE breeze. A Black Redstart calling from the fort and an early morning visit from a Greater Spotted Woodpecker. A Lapwing also flew over the reserve first thing.
Seawatching produced a handful of movements: including 22 Common Scoter, 5 Black-headed Gull, and 2 Sandwich Tern north. South: 4 Oystercatcher and 3 Sandwich Tern.
Hirundine movement was small with 4 Swift North and 3 South, 2 Swallow North.
A mix of insects in flight with Emperor, Southern Hawker and Migrant Hawker dragonflies and butterflies including Brown Argus, Common Blue (pictured above), small white, Gatekeeper, Meadow Brown, Large and Small White, Small Copper and Holly Blue.
Moth Trapping: 97 species last night caught in our 3 moth traps. Pick of the day is the Southern Wainscot, another species wandering in the heat, from its usual reed bed home.
Southern Wainscot (Mythimna straminea).
Bird Ringing: 3 Linnet, 3 House Sparrow, 2 Dunnock, 1 Blackbird, 1 Starling.