Warm and sunny, with a W wind. Loads of dragonflies on the wing and some birds!. A Black Redstart calling again from the fort and a Coal Tit again drifting down from Felixstowe as well as a Greater Spotted Woodpecker. Azure and Blue-tailed Damselflies and Emperor Dragonfly all on the wing as well as the second wave of Brown Argus butterflies.
Seawatching produced 10 Black-headed Gull, 6 Mediterranean Gull and a Curlew south. 4 Sandwich Tern and an Oystercatcher North. 2 Common Tern and 2 Shelduck south and towards the port.
Hirundine movement included 41 Sand Martin and 11 Swallow, all south.
Moth trapping: 124 species caught last night in our 3 traps. Todays pick of the bunch is this unassuming moth, the Fen Wainscot, noteworthy due to it being a Reedbeds specialist that occasionally blunders down here.
Fen Wainscot (Arenostola phragmitidis).
Bird ringing: 4 Great Tit, 3 Linnet, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Goldfinch, 1 Blue Tit, 1 Lesser Whitethroat.