Brent Geese heading over the fort - next stop...the tundra!
Pre-dawn cloud soon dispersed leaving a good sunny, calm spell early morning but it wasn't too long before the wind started to pick up bringing more cloud cover for a breezy, overcast afternoon; the morning's highlight was a Roseate Tern which flew north close inshore at 06:00 while the main feature of the day was a good movement of 351 Brent Geese coming out of the river before angling north heading for their breeding ground in the far north - awesome to see some migration in action!
Other birds through the day comprised 2 Black Redstarts, a Blackcap, a Chaffinch, 3 Chiffchaffs, 18 Common Scoter north, 2 Common Terns, 4 Fulmars, 2 Gannets, an Avocet south, a Hobby, 2 Jackdaws, a Kittiwake, 4 Lesser Whitethroats, 16 Little Terns lingering offshore, a Mediterranean Gull, 2 Peregrines hunting over the river, 3 Sanderling, 3 Sandwich Terns, 11 Swallows south, 2 Turnstone, 3 Wheatears, 5 Whitethroats, 2 Willow Warblers and a Shag north close inshore.
Ringing: Willow Warbler 1, Blackcap 1
Incurvaria masculella is a day-flyer that is easily overlooked as they don't sit still for long