Common Blue
Another gorgeous morning, calm, warm and sunny with a little onshore breeze developing towards lunchtime; there was a trickle of southbound birds perhaps hinting that this was though the first day of autumn (!) which included 2 Curlews, 4 Gannets, 2 Swifts, a Teal and a Grey Wagtail.
Other birds of note comprised some geese heading down the coast with 2 Barnacles, 2 Greylags and 66 Canadas, 2 Black Redstarts, a Common Tern, 2 Gadwall, 3 Avocets heading up the river, 2 Mediterranean Gulls, 6 Sandwich Terns, a Sparrowhawk, 3 Sanderling and 2 Turnstone.
Ringing: Blue Tit 1, Linnet 4
Mother Shipton is a day-flyer on areas of rougher grass