The east/south east breeze throughout yesterday continued overnight and into this morning and with the hope of something from further afield, nothing unusual appeared to present in-and-around the observatory. Torrential downpours and thunderstorms during this morning made observations interesting.
Migrants were rather thin on the ground with 1 Stock Dove landing on the nature reserve briefly, 6 Meadow Pipit, 1 House Martin with 3 Swallow and 17 Swifts. Others included 6 Sandwich Tern and 2 Siskin and a total of 32 Canada Geese flew South.
The warm and humid weather produced a good haul of moths in our traps this morning including this Peppered Moth, (above). The first of the year for us - two individuals were attracted. Several migrant moths were also present included 1 each of Rush Veneer and Small Mottled Willow and 8 Diamond-back Moth.
Ringing: 5 birds ringed during the morning including 2 Greenfinch, 1 Linnet, 1 Robin and 1 Blackbird.