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Monday 21st May 2018

 Some of the ringed Plover will insist on nesting near the fence line and duck their head down when people walk past them.

Thick fog that rolled in early evening yesterday had cleared by this morning and it was a cool but overcast start to the day. The first fledglings for this year have been seen on the reserve, two juvenile Starling were on the reserve yesterday, they've been joined by a couple more family groups today. There was also one small brood of Great Tit seen this morning.

Noted on the reserve, 22 Starling, 4 Shelduck, 4 Whitethroat, 3 Chiffchaff, 2 Common Gull, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 1 Reed Warbler & 1 Turnstone. Going North, 10 Cormorant, 6 Black-headed Gull, 5 Shelduck, 4 Little Tern, 4 Swallow & 3 House Martin. Going South, 2 Cormorant.

Species diversity increasing in the moth traps including the first White-point of the year, a species that has only colonised since the mid 1980's.

4 birds ringed: Chiffchaff 2, Linnet 1, Long-tailed Tit 1.