Pyramidal Orchid
After some biblical spells of rain overnight, the early morning cloud dispersed quickly, leaving a warm and sunny day; it was quieter offshore than the last couple of days but highlights comprised 8 Common Scoter, 2 Curlews, 2 Fulmars, 5 Mediterranean Gulls and a Sandwich Tern.
Other birds included 3 Black Redstarts, a Greenshank over, another dispersing juvenile Coal Tit, 4 Swifts and the peeping, stripy Pheasant chicks still being watched over by a protective mother.
Of great local note was a male Banded Demoiselle floating around one of the net lanes - only the third site record after individuals in 2003 and 2004, the paucity of records unsurprising due to the lack of flowing water of any kind!
Ringing: Song Thrush 1, Dunnock 2, Wren 2, Coal Tit 1, Lesser Whitethroat 2, Goldfinch 1, Linnet 5
For a species that is supposedly common Magpie Moth is barely annual down here