Starlings
Light rain lingered from dawn through until around 08:00, after which it turned into a pleasant, warm day with an increasing WSW wind; the day's birding highlight came just after lunchtime with a male Serin which flew in, gave a few bars of song before disappearing.
A few other bits and pieces comprised a trickle of birds moving south including 19 Black-headed Gulls, a Brent Goose, 2 Common Gulls, 12 Curlew, 2 Swallows, 30 Swifts and 2 Whimbrel, a dispersing juvenile Blackcap, and the first spangly juvenile Peregrine of the year.
Also of note for the site was a Southern Migrant Hawker, seemingly emerging from the Butts pond - the first record for the Obs.
Ringing: Herring Gull 2 (pullus), Song Thrush 1, Blackcap 1, Goldfinch 1
Southern Migrant Hawker
Clancy's Rustic - formally a vagrant, then an immigrant, it has now colonised during this century