Willow Emerald Damselfly basking in the mid-September sun.
It isn't often that Blue Tit makes it onto the list of notable migrants at Landguard, but a flock of 22 rising high into the sky certainly showed the signs of migratory restlessness, and 12 of that flock were ringed as new birds. Our local Blue Tits are quite wise to the mist nets and Heligoland trap so actually we don't usually catch so many in a day. Otherwise it was again a muted affair for migrants with those logged south being 11 Black-headed Gull, 6 Swallow, 2 Carrion Crow and 1 Yellow Wagtail. On site there were 25 Meadow Pipit, 10 Chiffchaff, 6 Blackcap, 3 Tree Sparrow, 2 Wheatear, 2 Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Goldcrest, 1 Pied Flycatcher and 1 Coal Tit. There were 7 Mediterranean Gull fly-catching above the Obs mid-morning.
The first site record of Golden-brown Fern-moth (Musotima nitidalis), a species first noted in the UK in 2009 having been imported via ferns in the horticultural trade from Australasia.
Ringing: 12 Blue Tit, 5 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 4 Meadow Pipit, 2 Great Tit, 1 Pied Flycatcher, 1 Robin, 1 Dunnock, 1 Goldfinch, 1 Coal Tit.