Changing winds today to a westerly brought a slightly colder feel to the air, but several new migrants were evident throughout the day. New migrants today included 1 Hobby early on this morning, 50 Swift, 13 Swallow, 13 House Martin, 3 Mediterranean Gulls, 1 Curlew, 2 Little Egret, 2 Common Tern, 1 Little Tern, 1 Lesser Whitethroat and 1 Spotted Flycatcher.
Migrants in other areas with which referring to butterflies, moths, damselflies and dragonflies have been rather productive of late and today was no exception. In the moth traps this morning were 2 Small Square-Spot and several Diamond-back Moths.
This Red-veined Darter, (above), was found by several observers on our daily census of the site this morning and quite a rare migrant here. Our past records have been singles on June 20th 2007 and June 21st 2009, so a real privilege to record this species here again.
Ringing: 23 birds ringed this morning including 13 Starling, 3 Greenfinch, 2 Blue Tit, 2 Great Tit, 2 Linnet and 1 Woodpigeon.