There was a local movement of birds again with plenty of dispersing juveniles in the bushes including a Coal Tit, several Blue Tits, Great Tits, Dunnocks, Linnets and Goldfinches. There were also couple of failed breeders in the form of 2 female Blackcaps.
A flock of 16 Crossbill headed South this first thing this morning, and there were 11 Swifts busily hawking around the observatory but they soon dispersed once the temperature started to rise. On the sea, 23 Common Scoter, 5 Sandwich Terns and a Common Tern headed north, a Fulmar headed out of the river and 4 Sandwich Terns headed south. A single Little Tern was offshore.
In the moth trap this morning was a Cydia microgrammmana, a nationally scarce species that we regularly catch, its larvae feed on Common Restharrow which is a common plant on the nature reserve.
Ringing: 3 Blue Tit, 3 Great Tit, 3 Whitethroat, 2 Blackcap, 2 Linnet, 1 Coal Tit