The overnight thick and heavy cloud with small amounts of fine drizzle was expected to produce an arrival of migrants. This was not the case but none the less a very productive day.
Sea watching was the order of the day with decent totals of duck on the move with 429 Teal, 61 Wigeon, 5 Shoveler, 2 Gadwall, 2 Tufted Duck and 1 Pintail heading South.
Waders included 17 Ringed Plover, 17 Turnstone, 6 Oystercatcher, 5 Grey Plover, 4 Knot, 4 Dunlin, 2 Bar-Tailed Godwit, 2 Redshank, 1 Curlew, along with 17 Common Tern, 16 Cormorant, 7 Great-Black Backed Gull and 3 Sandwich Tern.
Land migrants were very thin on the ground with records of 19 Swallow, 9 Yellow Wagtail, 6 Wheatear, 2 Willow Warbler, 2 Lesser Whitethroat (above), 2 Common Whitethroat, 2 Meadow Pipit, 1 Common Redstart and 1 Blackcap.
Ringing: 2 birds ringed this morning which were 2 Willow Warbler.