Yet more wind with occasional light showers. Hard work. After yesterdays push of migrants this morning southbound 20 House Martin, 9 Grey Plover, 4 Swallow, 3 Common Gull, 2 Skylark, Grey Wag & Snipe with northbound 9 Gannet & Red-throated Diver. On site 3 Wheatear with a Goldcrest on the beach needing to find a bush with the wind eliminating any meaningful birding throughout the rest of the site.
We have waited a long time to get a Fisher's Estuarine Moth that is known to live as close to us as the Walton backwaters. It is a Red Data Book species only known to occur at two sites in the UK on Hog's Fennel and is one of very few moths given protected status in Schedule 5 of the Wildlife & Countryside Act.
Ringing: 1 Dunnock, 1 Blue Tit.
