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After a couple of dodgy days weather wise, it was nice to get back to some decent weather again. It was also nice to have the wind blowing in from the north-east/east to go with it, purely from a selfish birders point of view. As we know these conditions tend to bring with them lots of good birds, and we were not to be disappointed. Firstly,a Barred Warbler was seen on the common right in front of the observatory building, later seen again in the compound by one of the nets, but didn't go in. There was a good mix of other migrants on site including a Tree Pipit, Pied & Spotted Flycatchers, 2 Garden Warblers, up to 5 Yellow Wagtails, 2 Wheatear, Reed Warbler, as well as several of the more typical warblers usually seen at this time of year. Offshore a Manx Shearwater flew north, and the first Wigeon of the year, a group of 6 flew south along with 100+ Teal & 45 Common Scoter,whilst in the harbour a Little Gull was seen briefly. Insect wise there were 2 Hummingbird hawk moths seen & at least 4 Painted Lady Butterflies & 2+ Clouded Yellows.
16 birds were ringed today. 3 Goldfinch, 3 Linnet 2 Robin & 1 each of Pied Flycatcher, Tree Pipit, Garden Warbler, Whitethroat & Lesser Whitethroat, Reed Warbler, Blackbird & Blue Tit.