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Thursday 16th July 2020




An overcast day with a bit of movement on the sea.

Heading south were 156 Black-headed Gulls, 9 Curlew, 5 Dunlin, 3 Whimbrel and 2 Redshank. A group of Common Terns were feeding offshore with a few Sandwich Terns and an Arctic Tern.

On the Land 109 Swifts, 16 Sand Martins and 3 Swallows headed south overhead. The Black Redstart was again in its favoured spot in front of the Observatory. A Blackcap and a Chiffchaff were the only two obvious migrants in the bushes.


The Box-Tree Moth is an adventive species noted here for the first time last year, and no doubt, coming to a moth trap near you soon.

Ringing: 1 Chiffchaff